Don?t get rid of your old speakers A few years ago, London-based designer Paul Cocksedge started collecting old speakers he found on the street because he liked the way they looked. After a while, he had amassed quite a few in the corner of his studio when he began to wonder, "Why are people throwing these beautifully designed, functional objects away" It was kind of breaking my heart."
Inspired by advances in Bluetooth and wireless technology, Cocksedge created the Vamp, a tiny cube with a shorn corner equipped with a battery, amplifier, and Bluetooth, that when connected to a traditional (read: old and disused) speaker, transforms it into a portable one, giving it new life. Three years and more than 10,000 units sold worldwide later, Cocksedge and his team at Paul Cocksedge Studio have launched a new Kickstarter campaign for phase two: The Vamp Stereo and Vamp Speaker. The Vamp Stereo expands on the functionalities of the Vamp by making it stereo, which means it can be hooked up to two speakers, producing double the sound, and, presumably, the experience?but not the waste. "We've managed to keep it all at the same size as the original, which is really exciting," said Cocksedge, "because we didn't need it from a design perspective, and secondly, that would have gone against this idea of trying to save energy."

Feedback from the first round showed that while users loved the idea of the Vamp, not everyon...