Worried that your long monologue at a conference may put your audience to sleep? You can now give your audience a voice too, by simply throwing your microphone at them like a ball!
A new innovative microphone, 'Catchbox', can be thrown to people in the audience without hurting them, or damaging the equipment.
According to its makers, it encourages listeners to participate more than a traditional mic.
Its soft outer cover protects the microphone equipement placed inside, and allows one to throw it around like a stuffed toy.
"When you throw a Catchbox at someone, they've only got a couple of seconds to figure out how it works. Hence the gadget can't be too complicated," CEO Timo Kauppila said.
"A fair few of our customers have told us they'll never arrange another event without Catchbox. That goes to show we've done it right," said Kauppila and Pyry Taanila, one of the co-founders of the Catchbox.
The trio Taanila, Kauppila and Mikelis Studers first came up with the idea in 2012. The initial prototypes were stuffed into soft toy balls of all shapes and sizes, 'Good News' reported.
The first prototypes were rented out to customers. Soon they started a crowdfunding campaign, and approximately 300 preorders came in.
Now, microphones are thrown in different corners of the world, including at events organised by Google and TED talks.
