Audience engagement can be a tricky for any speaker. And when you're trying to get the audience to participate by running around like a madman to pass off a standard mic? That's a disaster waiting to happen.
The team behind Catchbox–Mikelis Studers (electrical engineer), Timo Kauppila (business major) and Pyry Taanila (industrial design)–looked to solve the problems that exist with audience participation by creating a soft, colorful, throwable mic that will give your planning sessions or actual meetings a boost.
All you have to do is plug the Catchbox receiver into the sound system of your choice and you are ready to start tossing the Catchbox Microphone! Just make sure your audience members aren't looking down at their smartphones, so you don't whack them over the head and you're good to go.
Check out Catchbox's official website for information (and a cool video) on pre-ordering the product, which is set to start shipping out on June 2014.