Digital Home Thoughts: Logitech Z-10 Interactive 2.0 Speaker System Has Built-In Media Display, Touch-Sensitive Controls

"Logitech today introduced the Logitech® Z-10 Interactive 2.0 Speaker System, the newest member of Logitech´s line of Advanced Peripherals, featuring a groundbreaking design that will change how people think about and use PC speakers. With built-in touch-sensitive controls and a backlighted display that shows digital-music track information, a clock, volume and more, these trophy speakers are meant to be touched and seen — in addition to filling a room with studio-quality sound...By putting touch-sensitive controls on the face of the Z-10 speakers, Logitech has eliminated the need for people to toggle between applications to control their music on their computer monitor. People can continue to work or surf the Web, or even turn their monitor off and use the integrated speaker controls to adjust volume, treble and bass, and navigate music tracks with play, pause, skip forward and back buttons — just as they would with a portable music player or a traditional stereo system."



It's great to see the continued evolution of the humble speaker - these look great from a design standpoint, and the functionality is quite interesting. I really like the USB connection for audio - analog is so 2002. I can see these speakers being quite useful for laptop owners, especially if they're at a desk and want to close the laptop lid and still listen to and see their music. I'm not sure how useful they'll be for desktop PC users - it's tough to beat the Logitech keyboard shortcut buttons I have now.