The tiny Auris turns any 30-pin speaker dock into a Bluetooth speaker dock.
(Credit: Touchkraft LLC)
In my kitchen I have this great Fluance speaker dock — well, great except that it doesn’t have Bluetooth. If I want to listen to music, I have to plop my iPhone onto its 30-pin connector.
Or not, if I plop an Auris onto it instead. This Kickstarter-spawned gizmo can turn that dock into a Bluetooth speaker, able to play wireless audio from my iPhone, iPad, Android device, Windows phone, or anything else capable of Bluetooth streaming.
Neat, huh? No wonder this Kickstarter campaign earned more than three times its funding goal. I received a sample Auris from BiteMyApple.co (a site that sells all kinds of Kickstarter-created goodies), though you can also buy it direct from maker Touchkraft (for the same price).
Smaller than it looks in pictures, the matchbook-size Auris is compatible with all 30-pin speaker docks (i.e., those designed for earlier-gen iDevices). I tested it with the aforementioned Fluance and a DLO iBoom Jukebox; it fit just fine on both. There’s also a 3.5mm line-out jack (and cable) for using t… [Read more]
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