Renowned tech company Teenage Engineering is a founding partner of the startup
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The newly founded tech start-up of Oneplus co-founder Carl Pei dropped a small bomb and revealed another founding partner. It is the renowned Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering.
Teenage Engineering, founded in 2005, is known for its chic audio products such as the OP-1 synthesizer, which was celebrated for its unconventional industrial design, among other things. Now the company is doing common cause with Pei’s tech startup: According to Nothing, Teenage Engineering is responsible for the design of the upcoming products.
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Teenage Engineering is responsible for the design of the Nothing products
Like Pei opposite The Verge On record, he has worked with Teenage Engineering over the past few months to create a product roadmap that is “unique and in line with Nothing’s vision.” With “their unique craftsmanship and extensive experience in industrial design”, Teenage Engineering has decisively shaped the design identity of Nothing, explains the company continue on Twitter.
Carl Pei – at 23 he co-founded Oneplus. In 2021 he will follow up with Nothing. (Photo: Nothing)
According to Nothing, Teenage Engineering Co-Founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd will serve as the creative director and “visionary behind the design world of Nothing”.
Teenage Engineering’s assistant design director, Tom Howard, will serve as chief designer at Nothing. “After months of research and development, we are now at a point where I believe we can show the world something exciting,” Kouthoofd told The Verge.
First Nothing product: headphones
Nothing’s first product is wireless earbuds, which are slated to hit the market later this summer. It should be interesting to what extent they are based on the design of Teenage Engineering M-1 headphones.
Teenage Engineering M1. (Image: Teenage Engineering)
In addition to the OB-1 and the M1 headphones Teenage Engineering has other designer pieces like that Radio OB-4 and a mini-synthesizer in cooperation with Capcom. All products as well as the Pocket Operator 170 synthesizer stand out due to their unusual designs. The smartspeakers announced in 2017 also stood out due to their slightly different construction and bright colors.
Nothing had already raised seven million US dollars from well-known tech giants before an official financing round. These include iPod inventor Tony Fadell, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and Youtuber Casey Neistat. In early February, Nothing announced another $ 15 million in A-series funding to have received. One of the main investors was GV, formerly Google Ventures. This is the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. With parts of the raised millions, Nothing has taken over the remnants of the liquidation company Essential from Android inventor Andy Rubin. It was primarily about the trademark rights, it is said.
