A flat-pack boombox for your smartphone, made from recycled cardboard

The Berlin Boombox starts out as a kit containing flat-packed die-cut cardboard, plus two speakers and a small digital amplifier, that can be assembled by the user …

By Derek Markham - Source: http://www.treehugger.com

Photo © Berlin Boombox

Back in the day, it was hip to tote around a big boombox to broadcast your musical tastes to the entire neighborhood, but now our media players tend to be tiny and high-tech, with only our own headphones as the outlet for our music.

Sure, there are plenty of options for portable speakers on the market, but if you’ve got a retro thing, and want to be able share your tunes with others, this cardboard boombox might be just what you’ve been waiting for.

Essentially a portable speaker system and amplifier built into a shell that resembles the boomboxes of yesteryear, the Berlin Boombox lets users play their music out loud from any smartphone or MP3 player (actually anything that has a headphone cord port), giving them access to today’s portable music devices while offering old-school visual stylings.