Joey Roth has made quite a name for himself.  First with the design for his gorgeous Sorapot, and then with the interesting way he went about presenting his company at the New York International Gift Fair.  He brought nothing but some tools and his products, and repurposed other people’s garbage at the show into a rather fantastic-looking booth (which I saw for myself).  He recently released his Ceramic Speakers, which were announced some time ago, but only available recently.  We decided to go ahead and stock his products, as we’ve always been admirers and followers of his designs, and are proud to have them all on display in the store.  Come by and give the Ceramic Speakers a listen, or feel up a Sorapot, because we know you’ve seen them on a million blogs, but not in person.  For a good audiophile review on the speakers, check this out.

Just a quick note here of something interesting I came across.  You know the WeSC Alp Horn headphones we’ve been carrying for a while?  Well, I just came across a photo by Jonathan Mutch on Flickr of the B&O U70 headphones.  Look familiar?  Hmm WeSC, not to bash you, but looks like your design wasn’t so original after all.  I’m a big design geek, so I’m more mad at myself for not recognizing that earlier…

From a well-worded Boing Boing post:

I tread a fine line with it comes to faux retro camera hipsterism: I think buying old film cameras, while a perfectly fair choice for some, forgoes most of the convenience, opportunity for learning, and dare I say magic of the digital camera. On the other hand, my white is on my computer and iPhone adding washed out filters and faux vignettes all the time. I’ll give up fidelity and authenticity, but never ease of use.

So what to do about the “Digital Harinezumi” by Superheadz? The Japanese analog cameramaker has made a tiny digital (its first), complete with an LCD screen—that it won’t let you use when snapping a picture, forcing you instead to frame the shot with a plastic viewfinder like the one found on old 110 “spy” cameras. (The Harinezumi looks quite a bit like those very cameras, one of which I owned after seeing Bill Cosby use one in Leonard: Part VI.)

The washed out look from leaky plastic cameras is still there. There’s a physical spring-loaded switch that mimics a film camera’s controls. It even shoots video that harkens to 8mm film—by leaving out the sound.

It’s sort of what we’ve come to, the last option in a market oversaturated with inexpensive point-and-shoots capable of crystal-clear snapshots: when you can no longer go forward, you have to go back. But at least Superheadz remembered to keep it convenient, with a microSD card slot for transferring up to 4GB of your 2-megapixel images and VGA movies onto your computer and the internet.

Well, we’ve got it in stock now, along with a whole slew of their other cameras and books.  As the first U.S. retailer of the BlackBird, Fly when it came out last year, we’re proud to have it.  You can see a video of our new store layout shot with the Digital Harinezumi below.

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