THE BEST Teenage Engineering

Audio gear maker Teenage Engineering has a great eye for industrial design. Their minimal Bluetooth speaker continues that trend, and packs a pair of 4″ bass drivers, neodymium magnet tweeters, and a 38w per channel amp. The “Magic Radio” also records everything you play onto a 2-hour loop that you can rewind and time-stretch.

IKEA teamed up with synth and design house Teenage Engineering to create a limited collection to turn any space into a dance party. It includes modular LED spotlights and dot-matrix lights, speakers and subwoofers, furniture, tiki cups, and even a cajón drum to get the beat going. They also created some 3D-printable hacks.

A special limited edition of Teenage Engineering’s awesome little Pocket Operator PO-35 Speak sampler and beatmaker, featuring a built-in mic, eight voice characters created by Justin Roiland himself, and Rick and Morty animations. Sadly, it looks like it’s already sold out, so it’s off to eBay for us.

Teenage Engineering’s third batch of Pocket Operators is now complete. Accompanying the PO-32 Tonic drum machine are the PO-33 K.O.!, a micro-sampler with 40s memory, and the PO-35 Speak, a voice recorder and sampler.

New additions to the cheap and compact synths. The PO-20 Arcade is loaded with chiptune sounds, the PO-24 Office uses samples from old hardware such as typewriters and fax machines, and the PO-28 Robot has a real 8-bit synth with separate melody and drum channels.

Teenage Engineering and Cheap Monday’s pint-sized synthesizers – a drum machine, a bass synth and a lead synth – are bare bones boards. They run on 2 AAA batteries and have 3.5mm line-in and line-out.

Teenage Engineering’s take on the Carlsson Cube is now available for pre-order. The OD-11 keeps the original’s bass reflex design and adds mobile remote control, streaming from your device or from cloud music services and more.

From the makers of the OP-1 comes the “world’s first cloud speaker”, the OD-11. Based on Stig Carlsson’s classic design, it has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and has an easy-to-use wireless remote.

Available late 2010, Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 is a synth, sampler, and controller all-in-one with FM radio, accelerometer, AMOLED display, scissor switch keys, and aluminum unibody.