Well perhaps it’s a marketing gimmick, or perhaps it could be a new medium of selling music, but hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan has recently released their new album, and one of the ways to purchase the album would be to buy a specially designed wearable speaker that contains the group’s music in it.
The speakers are built by Boombotix and according to the company’s CEO, the speaker was a customized version of its Boombot speakers and had to be reworked to include flash memory and a file management system to store the album on. Speaking to Billboard, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA explained how the idea came about.
“I had the idea pop up into my head, for a while, about music being kind of disconnected to us. Of being so digitized and accessible, but yet not tangible. But this thing here, a tangible item, like your old Walkman or your old cassette, or your old record, that’s what this is bringing back.”
It seems that the speakers will be a limited run as only 3,000 of them will be sold at $79.99 each where it will be made available in November ahead of the group’s album release, but what do you guys think of this new method of distributing music?