Aerosystem iPod Dock

By Nick Mokey Published June 18, 2018

We’ve seen some pretty extreme docks iPod before, but never any quite like Jean Michel Jarre’s Aerosystem, a high-end iPod dock that looks like it’s an unused prop fabbed up for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The futuristic audio system literally puts the iPod on a pedestal by building its speakers into a tower of glass tubing, upon which Jobs’ jewel sits perched like a museum piece. The speakers – two 20-watt stereo units and a 40-watt subwoofer – rest in segments sandwiched between glass on the way down the shaft. If that all sounds a little dramatic, just try looking at the photos and tell us it wouldn’t look right at home in orbit.

Image Courtesy of Aerosystem

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The dock up top will accept just about every style iPod ever made, except for the Shuffle, and there’s also a 3.5mm stereo jack for connecting analog sources, and a USB 2.0 jack for reading files directly off of digital storage media. Something tells us a thumb drive shoved into the top wouldn’t quite complete the look, though.

Getting a hold of your own three-foot tall iPod shrine won’t be easy. Right now, they’re only sold in France, and they run for 449,00 €, or about $580 USD. More information can be found at the designer’s Web site, though we recommend some background in French, or at least a trip through Google Translate.

Here are some links to other extreme Apple iPod speaker systems:

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