After Show: PODS iPod Speakers

They managed to make cubes in a stable position that fall over, this might just be a miracle of science

*Plays for 5 seconds.* "MURDER TIME!"

Spoop

Hail corporate

Ants621

I had a pair of such speakers, they were the worst shit ever but i kept them as i maybe will use them on a beach one day, never did tho.

"dangerously crunchy"

Is it just me, or do those speakers sound much better for a second until he stops the music?

tried to eat them. Safe to say they taste just as good as pods!

Oh my GOD, I had these! They came in all white and with some paint to customize them... This is taking me back.

Bébé Lou

the speaker unit looks like the exact same as the speaker unit in a Bluetooth speaker from wish.com i once ordered

I got CommBank ones of these at a university o-week

Krystal Jade

buttwipe speakers when it will help with it blowing away in the wind by holding a speaker

Had a similar one as part of a newspaper promotion, except you put the speaker in an empty cleaned Pringles can.

Haida

This reminds me of speakers I've seen for sale in the UK at Poundland, a la Ashens channel. I also had a set of speakers from some promotion Kool cigarettes did years ago to get you smoking lol. Those were plastic and battery powered but they still SUCKED.

I wouldn’t even call it a that bad idea to make technology like speaker’s shells out of paper since it’s probably way more enviromentally friendly than plastic or metal, but this is just geniuenly horribly engineered

Ludvík

portable ipod speakers... sooo its the crunchy pis pods?

Emil Wang

Am I really considering doordashing pods because I'm too cut to drive to the supermarket...

Damon Mackay

My mom bought a pair of these for me growing up not pods but they were the same product in blue I think they were sold at Five Below here in the states

Oh my god my aunt gave me one of those when I was in middle school..I thought that was a fever dream because I never saw anything like them again but nope it really happened

Armando Gonzales

let me know if dank responds i wanna know too

Randall

Hey DankPods, in one of your videos you mentioned doing a video on interchangeable iPod parts between generation, did anything ever come of that?

Almost every company now has at least made a promotion featuring this type of speaker.

A quick questoion... IF you ever have a Garbage Time patreon, will you upload them here, or will you post them here?

Pringles did the same campaign, took 6 months for mine to arrive. Exact same speaker as well

not even kidding we made speakers just like this for an electronics project in school!

i got something similar from an E3 years ago, they may be the same! (dont know tho, i threw them away a while ago too)

I actually have a pair of these with Capcom promotional crap on them!

Deafbeats

Wonder what happens to the Mojo....

Love the vids! I was just wondering if you ever considered joining floatplane, as I think you'd be a good fit. Cheers!

Andrew Boehm

but as a free promo item where they any good?

I had those. They're the worst "speakers" I've ever had, the one I got at the dollar store was better.

Ive got a set of these somewhere but with KFC branding

Cry with me brother (or sister)

YamiSpyro

I remember like 10 year old me watching ashens pondland videos on my 2gen ipod touch and really wanting one of these. Oh the good old day's how i don't miss them

I thought that was going to damage my ear before those speakers blew.

Yuck I can see why no one wanted them.

Trent Bennett

oh god i remember that

Ryan Dowd

Do they go into a T-Pose?

right??

Have you seen pkcell's website? It has a great company photo on there.

Rem Smiers

Damn, this just reminded me that Pods are being discontinued here in NZ :'(

Why does that thumbnail remind me of the crappy promo KFC NZ did a few years back? (ive got two sets sitting around somewhere because excess stock and i worked there during the promo)

YamiSpyro

If I was in your shoes I totally would have filled the speakers with Pods and see how they handled the Diablo. That would have been priceless!

Alex Redding

Hey man, you cant blow speakers without driving them directly with something that can supply some real power to the driver because you are bottlenecked by the internal crap-amp (not in this case of extra crap speakers without electronics) I'd recommend a smashed powered subwoofer with the internal output on some aligator clips (cheap shrekpod vibe device) or a dedicated amp :D it would definitely smoke up many many headphones that survive the diablo and maybe even some tiny sparks :D Ask me how I know xD anyways thanks for the content to watch :3

Oh lord! I remember these type of "speakers". Got them as a gift from my mobile service provider to "rock the beach in the summer"... The disappointment when I received them, they shouldn't have bothered

I have a similar pair from Bethesda. It was a Skyrim promo stuff for journalists, they are absolute crap, but looks cool, and they "got the job done" in my dorm room when i was living off of pennys. :D

Holy shit didn't Ashens find a very similar pair of folding cardboard speakers on one of his really old Poundland special videos? He just destroyed them though and never showed them actually play music for copyright reasons, as that video was really old and I don't even know if royalty-free music was a thing at the time.

Or plug it into 58 amps

I think you just need an amp with even more power. Like wire up a proper 1500w loudspeaker amp to a headphone jack. Or if you really want to pop em, plug them straight into the wall. 240v @60hz will vaporize most anything.

marsrover

0/5 doesn't even bounce a PKCell

I've seen those before and out of a ipod touch, well you rather just use the ipod touches speaker

I have a similar set, but they're triangular and they have the branding of Drumstick ice creams

yup, looks like crap to me

I had the same speakers in school when we build our own speakers out of wood, ah the garbage sounding memorys are coming back.

They look like the scraps from tearaway

Good one

I had a pair of these years ago but they weren't this brand and I got them prebuilt at a car boot sale for 20p.

who.. who thought “yeah giveaway these cheap speakers in a crappy cardboard shell” like just… WHO

Nice

Engineer1: "So, what material do we use for caustics?" Engineer2: "How about literal garbage."

Lambda

When I was in middle school (like...12 years ago) I had some Hollister (or maybe Aripostal not Aristotle) [US "hip" clothing companies] branded speakers that were basically identical to that except they weren't cube shaped. I'll have a look to see if I can find them, if you're interested in exploding them. I remember then being garbage. Edit: apparently my sister kept them and has them somewhere in her room. She says you can have them if you want them. Would you be interested in having them in your collection of garbage audio tat? (Or to just light them on fire with the big stinky amp)

would love to see you make something like these and review them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGzNkUmPdXc

TheAwesomeDuckling

thanks now i cant get that out of my head

yoooo i had one of these when i was younger

joshua

oh my pkcell!

I love how the cardboard around the actual speakers was exactly the same as the box is game in

Time to bust out the blue tack

Kaisea

why did this make me hungry?

Thanks for always throwing the "orh my pkcell" it makes my week

I need to find some pods now 😫

“Ingeniously Crunchy”

i got a set of skittles cardboard speakers like these as a prize from a church thing

I've watched a bunch of your videos and love them! Still curious why you don't buy a cheap 100W Bluetooth amp (Meant to drive speakers) and graft a 3.5mm socket onto it. Super simple and guaranteed to literally ignite any set of headphones, much less make them smell funny.

Larry B

Welcome to cardboard waste heaven or hell it depends

Martino Bayley

I think it's an Australian (and maybe NZ) thing. I've never heard of Pods because I'm from the US, but they look kinda good ngl

Hey comment section, I need advice on a good dac for around or under $300 dollarydoos. going to be paired with a schiit Magni and my dt990 pro cans. any advice helps :)

vanillia or chocolate?

I have no idea what this candy is BUT this strikes me as less some sort of giveaway or promotional item, and more like one of those gift sets you can buy around the holiday season, with a candy and an unrelated novelty thing with the candy's branding on it. Which would explain the nice presentation with no barcode, since it's not meant to be sold outside of the gift set.

Dave Chin

Never heard of or seen pods. American issues..

I've seen a similar flatpack speaker pair in the UK without branding before, and genuinely, the instructions asked you to put something heavy into the box so they didn't tip forwards.

Allison J. James

EEEEUUUGH IT STINKS! *proceeds to sniff fingers*

Blue Pepsi and gasoline

I got some of these for free from like Coca-Cola back in the day. Never bothered using them, but they made for an amusing novelty to have on a shelf. I don’t recall mine being so unbalanced though, I think they might have given you a little weight to drop in the bottom with the Coke ones or something?

Paul Douglas

I recently bought some JVC ear buds and I used scarlet fire as a bass test to see if they where gonna be good. They where! Thanks for showing us the magic that is "Scarlet Fire"

Magnificent

Elizabeth Rice

if you tape these together with duct tape, you can get a nice pair of cans.

Dude, maybe the speakers were made of pods, like actually made of hard chocolate (•o•)

ScAI-nNET_C

I think I've found my new desktop speakers.

Hebonky

My motorola 5g ace does not have this issue but I havent tried iphone/ipod proprietary headphones

I giggled my arse off when the speakers fell over! P.S - S’mores PODS for the win!

Kim Gaetjens

Can't believe pods got discontinued in NZ

Was I the only one that would colour in the top part of the "d" on Pods packaging, just so I could have a giggle about eating Poos?

OzRetrocomp

technically, the iphone 3.5mm jack is a different standard to what some android phones use. The mic and the ground are swapped. On some phones, if an iPhone headphone is used, audio will not work. You have to get a small TRS extension (3 pin) so the mic and ground will be shorted and you can use them. My first android smartphone had this issue (Moto e2 LTE). So yes, the 3.5 mm jack is somewhat proprietary. Cheap modern Motorola phones are still having this issue.

This takes the term "box speakers" to a whole new level

Dankpods>1euro

I remember my dad had something like this, but it was a cheap mono speaker designed to be inserted into an empty Pringles can. The sound quality was awful.

That reminds me, are you still planning on upgrading that clear plastic speaker dock from your Straya Day special?

Patrick Hughes

I remember getting a bacardi version of these speakers when I was like 12 or so

Where is the mojo? Still dead?

Worth every penny

Nothing screams Quality like cardboard with some speakers glued in them.

Just cheap crap for your estimated customers

This reminds me of the DML speakers such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkyGDqU7xA did. Any chance you will do a video on that?

Bryan Lyon

They’ve always struck a chord

Only OGs will remember the mojo

Panzer IV

I had some of those box speakers a long time ago, I can’t remember what brand they were though. All I can remember is they sucked and I’m pretty sure I destroyed em

Maybe I mean Mars

Oh man. I do miss Pods, snickers were the best!

8 dollarydoos a month couldn't spend it any better if you ask me

I had a knockoff version of these. They listed me about 8 months before they literally started to fall apart.

Joshua Chap

Even these get better sound than my 5.1 from my phone atm. Some reason the volume is really quiet to them 🙄

Quadrant

8 poonds a month I spend for this QUALITY CONTENT

'ello

Best 1 dollarydoo a month I've ever spent

A

Sup

Max C.

ain’t nothing like sexy speaker tho… she does things to me

He’s back

It's dank time

Nano

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