This isn't the first time B&W's launched an air-balloon shaped wireless speaker. The most recent version of the iconic Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin was met with high praise shortly after its 2021 release, but B&W's been launching blimp-shaped wireless speakers since 2008 (a model that even carried the then-popular iPod dock), including the Zeppelin Air and Zeppelin Wireless in 2011 and 2015 respectively.
But B&W still thinks you've got room in your life for a blimp-shaped speaker – and yes, it still gives the illusion of floating above whichever surface you've placed it on. I've always thought the Zeppelin is to B&W as the Beats Pill is to Beats; a piece of audio history it's too tempting not to update (and the nostalgic among us will fall for it every time).
