A new hearing experience.

Astro Stereo is a special stereo which can visualize the music by light projection. Through the interaction between music and the light, stereos are no longer just a simple music player. It creates a brand new type of hearing experience, not only can we hear the music, but can also see and feel the rhythm while listening.

Astro Stereo also improves the sleep quality as well, it creates a night sky on the wall by projection while playing music. People could be shrouded in a milky way and fell asleep as the lights faded out. It is like the starry stars shining and singing in your home.

Interact with Astro Stereo

The users can use various gestures to interact with the speaker.

Why combin outer space and stereo

Throughout recorded history, human beings can only relate the known universe through light, such as sunshine in the daylight and sparkling stars at night. We’ve always thought that space is a silent world. In fact, the space can actually fluctuate like drums and play like gramophones, emit vast sound throughout the whole universe at the same time. Therefore, whenever we look upon the stars, we know the stars are also walking toward us, as if they were carrying a song from the time space.

Sleep like an astronaut

Most astronauts suffer serious levels of insomnia that could be putting their lives in danger. Therefore, NASA spends 11.2$ million and hope to use the science of light to reduce astronauts' dependency on sleeping medicines. Sleep scientists have found that people feel more alert when they are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, because the brain suppresses melatonin,a key hormone in regulating sleep.

In the contrary, red-spectrum light helps increase the melatonin, allowing people to sleep better. Therefore, NASA created a new fixture for astroauts. It has three modes, each with a subtly different hue: White light is for general vision; a cooler blue-shifted light promotes alertness which is useful in the morning or during mid-sleep emergencies. And a warmer red-shifted light triggers sleepiness (helpful at bedtime).

With Astro Stereo, users can play the relax melodies from their phone and had them visualized by Astro Stereo. Furthermore, Astro Stereo can also helps improve sleep quality by changing the color of its lights. With the Astro Stereo app, users can change any colors they want in the environment.

Audio prototype - analyze and visualize the audio

Most astronauts suffer serious levels of insomnia that could be putting their lives in danger. Therefore, NASA spends 11.2$ million and hope to use the science of light to reduce astronauts' dependency on sleeping medicines. Sleep scientists have found that people feel more alert when they are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, because the brain suppresses melatonin,a key hormone in regulating sleep.

In the contrary, red-spectrum light helps increase the melatonin, allowing people to sleep better. Therefore, NASA created a new fixture for astroauts. It has three modes, each with a subtly different hue: White light is for general vision; a cooler blue-shifted light promotes alertness which is useful in the morning or during mid-sleep emergencies. And a warmer red-shifted light triggers sleepiness (helpful at bedtime).

With Astro Stereo, users can play the relax melodies from their phone and had them visualized by Astro Stereo. Furthermore, Astro Stereo can also helps improve sleep quality by changing the color of its lights. With the Astro Stereo app, users can change any colors they want in the environment.

Design & prototype

Final product