I’m learning the hard way that presenting concepts may mean giving them to someone else to show on an unknown laptop across the world somewhere. I can control for many factors by simply making a video of my design concept, with voice over. But that laptop won’t get the audio loud enough, and no one ever has a cable to plug into a projector’s speaker.

We need speakers.

Here’s what I would like in my show-off-my-design-concept speakers:

1. Tiny, tiny enough to fit in a laptop bag
2. Powered by USB so there are no extra cables or batteries to worry about
3. Great looks
4. Decent sound, at least good for speech

Here’s a few candidates: