Its look was inspired, Jung said, by the work of German industrial designer Dieter Rams and the Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara. The 3D-printed speaker shell boasts a suitably 1960s retro-futuristic space age aesthetic that could comfortably fit among the props in a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey. “It looked fun.” Coming soon to a living room near you? Absentmindedly, he manually began timing the electromagnetic pulses to match the music he was hearing.

The idea for the speaker came to him when he was listening to music while playing with a ferrofluid display cell he had built. Since finding out about ferrofluid, Jung has used it in multiple pieces of art - including an impressive ferrofluid “ Pataphysical Pond,” in which the ferrofluid spreads out like a live oil spill or an ever-shifting Rorschach test. It’s an interesting blend of art and science. Snow once called “ The Two Cultures,” with science and the humanities firmly seated in opposite camps. His work, therefore, bridges what English novelist C.P. But he also studied and worked as an electrician and electronic engineer. Jung calls himself an installation artist interested in kinetic and new media art. “I think it because it was unfamiliar for a fluid, not a solid, to react to magnetism. “Its physical properties were really amazing,” he said. Jung told Digital Trends that he became interested in ferrofluid in 2015 when he bought a small ferrofluidic bottle toy from Amazon. Imagine the aliens from Arrival living it large at a rave and you won’t be too far off. In the case of Jung’s speaker, he uses it - in conjunction with an electromagnet - to conjure up a speaker display that moves around in time to the music being played on it.

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