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The Beolit 17 wireless speaker has a secret button

It may, or may not, do what you want it to

Fraser Macdonald

B&O’s battery-powered Beolit Bluetooth boombox isn’t new, but this is a new version of the Beolit. It looks like the previous Beolit 12 and 15, but while those guys had three buttons, this one has an exciting extra button. Which might do one of several extraordinary things. It might change the ToneTouch equaliser preset, set or snooze an alarm or simply, and perhaps surprisingly, play the last song you Spotifyed. You don’t get to decide. Well, unless you’ve downloaded the app. Then you do get to decide.

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Fraser used to wear a Psion Series 3 palmtop in a shoulder holster. Perhaps he still does.Either way, his lifelong mission - including fourteen years for Stuff - has been to see whether the consumer electronics industry can ever replicate that kind of cyborgian joy.So far: nope. Despite a plan to combine a action camera and Olympus Eye-Trek goggles to become Man Who Sees The Vision Of A Man Three Inches Taller Than Himself.He also likes mountain bikes, motorbikes, cars, helicopters. Still thinks virtual surround is witchcraft. Dislikes jetskis, despite never having been on one.