Hear this: a portable voice-activated smart speaker with a touchscreen, wireless charging and built-in subwoofers is on the market.<\/p>\n
Vancouver-based\u00a0SproutBox Design has announced the release of Aivia, a smart speaker powered by Google Assistant and Android OS. Aivia launched on Kickstarter<\/a> last week and\u00a0the Vancouver-based company behind the speaker has already reached its fundraising goal of $25,000.<\/p>\n The smart speaker sets itself apart from similar products by other well-known\u00a0tech brands with its touchscreen panel, wireless phone charging station, eight-megapixel\u00a0camera and Bang\/Olufsen-designed subwoofer. Really more like a tablet and a speaker combined, Aivia lets users stream content over Bluetooth, wifi or AUX connections, in addition to accessing Youtube, Netflix and Spotify from the built-in 8-inch HD display.<\/p>\n Integrated with Google Assistant,\u00a0Aivia’s voice-recognition and activation abilities\u00a0let users control the device much like a Google Home or Amazon Alexa, finding requested\u00a0songs across various music apps. The two large\u00a0speakers and a dedicated subwoofer mean Aivia also produces high-end audio\u2014resulting in what the company bills as better sound quality than\u00a0other smart speakers on the market.<\/p>\n Aivia does have some tough competition following recent announcement by notable companies in the smart device and\u00a0speaker industry.<\/p>\n Last week, Google unveiled its upgraded Google Home<\/a> for music lovers called the Max. It comes equipped with\u00a04.5-inch subwoofers, what Google said is\u00a020 times more powerful than the original Google Home. Sonos entered the smart speaker market last week<\/a>\u00a0too,\u00a0revealing its\u00a0Sonos One speaker can now\u00a0support multiple voice services, including\u00a0Amazon Alexa.<\/p>\n Aivia runs for $399 USD, the same price as Google’s new Max and slightly more than the Sonos One at $350 USD.\u00a0SproutBox expects the speaker to be delivered as early as October 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hear this: a portable voice-activated smart speaker with a touchscreen, wireless charging and built-in subwoofers is on the market. Vancouver-based\u00a0SproutBox Design has announced the release of Aivia, a smart speaker powered by Google Assistant and Android OS. Aivia launched on Kickstarter last week and\u00a0the Vancouver-based company behind the speaker has already reached its fundraising goal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76241,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1669,1069,1668,22],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-94384","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-aivia","tag-google-assistant","tag-sproutbox","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/94384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/94384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=94384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}