The engineers at Earthquake Sound won’t rest until every American has sustained permanent hearing loss. They even make speakers for sofa implantation, which deliver thundering sound directly into your body, liquifying the contents of your intestines. Great if a week’s worth of casino food has deregulated the final phase of your normal digestive routine.
Neeeeyyoowwwmmm
To show off their handiwork, they’ve got a viewing station set up to play the 2001 Ben Affleck (and the Flecktones) vehicle Pearl Harbor. It’s as good a choice as any—it features loud planes and explosions from all directions to showcase the speakers, and it’s not good enough that people are going to hang around the booth too long, monopolizing the couch because they get caught up in it. We wondered, though, whether this sticker was necessary:
Afflecktionately Yours
Are there really people who want to filch a DVD of Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor? We suppose there must be. If CES has shown us anything, it’s that there are all kinds of people in this crazy world, and some of them are seriously weird.
Weird coincidence: So were the Woot bloggers
Incidentally, Earthquake’s stuff is made in the U.S. of A., a fact about which they’re entitled to crow in this era of declining domestic manufacturing. But boasting about it in a convention hall where you’re surrounded by Asian competitors’ booths — well, maybe next year they should show a DVD of 10,000,000 BC, or Blues Brothers 2000, or almost any movie less… uh… you know, inflammatory.
The rest of the Woot blog's CES 2009 coverage shall live in infamy on our CES page.
