Listen to rock music, from a rock!
April 22, 2010 1 Comment Friday, April 23rd, 2010 Netcast 1075. Back to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
Here's the bottom of the rock that faces down. It has the speaker, volume control & battery compartment.Almost 20 years ago a company called Datawave introduced something very unique for its time. It was the Datawave Wireless Rock Speaker System. For about $160 you got a pretty realistic looking fiberglass rock with a built in amplifier, receiver and speaker. Datawave went a little overboard when they called their new product a “combination of technology and Hollywood Movie Magic”. The fake fiberglass rock was designed for the garden. The speaker and electronics inside the speaker faced down toward the ground to shield it from the elements. Also in the Datawave box was a transmitter that hooked to your stereo indoors. It included cables so you could use the RCA audio out jacks (the red and white ones) or even the headphone jack to connect your music source to the Datawave transmitter. Four D batteries powered the speaker and the transmitter came with its own AC adapter. Using “advanced FM technology” -- again referring to the info from the Datawave instruction manual – you could transmit your music up to 150 feet away. Because it used FM it didn’t matter much what was in-between your transmitter and the outdoor speaker. Since the “rock” was battery powered it had a convenient “auto off” feature. If there was no music being played, it would shut down. There was even a “mic in” jack on the transmitter so you can ‘broadcast” announcements to your friends outside within ear shot of the Datawave rock. The mic was optional. Of course now there are lots of outdoor rock shaped speaker systems on the market, but Datawave was among the first!
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