In this pre-ISE 2025 videocast, I spoke with Aleksejs Kolpakovs, vice president of commerce at Catchbox, about the company’s plans for the show. Known for its throwable and catchable microphone, Catchbox is focusing on the applications of Catchbox Plus in education and workplace settings. Catchbox Plus, launched in 2024, simplifies the addition of wireless microphones […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Welcome to this series highlighting some of the manufacturers and brands that will be featured on the show floor at ISE 2025. As we gear up for the event, we wanted to share a preview of what these companies are bringing to the table — from new products to insights […]

Catchbox is shipping its Catchbox Plus 4-channel microphone system. Designed with university and corporate applications in mind, the new Catchbox Plus system features a Stick handheld, a Clip wearable and Cube throwable mics. The system is now available in 2 or 4 mic channel configurations with an optional Network and Dante connectivity enabling users to […]

Catchbox introduced a four-channel wireless microphone system with new additions to the Plus product family. The updated Catchbox Plus system now includes new microphone options such as the Stick handheld mic, alongside “improved versions of the Cube throwable mic and Clip wearable mic.” Besides introducing new hardware and third-party integrations (Q-SYS, Utelogy), the new Catchbox […]

This pre-InfoComm-2024 episode of Rants & rAVes features Catchbox VP of commerce, Aleksejs Kolpakovs, who explains the company’s new Catchbox Plus room system aimed at higher education installs and meeting rooms. The system includes the famed Catchbox throwable mic along with a handheld and universal wearable lab mic (all charge wirelessly and are available via […]

Catchbox just launched a Q-SYS-certified plug-in for Catchbox Plus Pro. This plug-in enables software and hardware technology partners to create market-ready solutions that integrate with Q-SYS, a cloud-manageable audio, video and control Platform. AV integrators and IT Professionals can now obtain and install the Catchbox Control Plug-in directly through the Q-SYS Designer Asset Manager within […]

Catchbox is expanding the Plus wireless microphone system to 4 microphone channels introducing new additions to the product family – Stick handheld mic alongside improved Cube throwable mic and Clip wearable mic. Today, work and learning environments rely on professional audio solutions for essential connectivity, raising the importance of both the audio quality and user […]

Catchbox is expanding the Plus wireless microphone system to 4 microphone channels, introducing new additions to the product family: Stick handheld mic alongside improved Cube throwable mic and Clip wearable mic. The company says 4-channel Catchbox Plus system was designed for whole-room audio capture for voice lift, hybrid conferencing and recordings, as well as captioning […]

TIME reveals its annual list of the Best Inventions of 2023, which features extraordinary innovations changing our lives every day. Every year for over two decades, TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year’s list, TIME solicited nominations paying special attention to growing […]

The last thing people want to do in a post-COVID-19 world is share a microphone. Catchbox, creators of the throwable microphone, have attempted to fix this by partnering with Swedish company Polygiene to create an antimicrobial cover for its wireless microphones. Both the Catchbox cover fabric and microphone foam cap are treated with Polygiene ViralOff, […]

AVIXA will host more than 200 education sessions at InfoComm 2019, June 8-14 in Orlando, Fla., in classrooms that they say are designed to exemplify how content, space and technology work together to create integrated experiences. To achieve this, AVIXA’s education program developers worked closely with the its standards conformance officers to ensure the rooms […]

Some categorize the quality of a user experience as a hierarchy, like this one: An accessible user interface does its job. You can access and interact with the interface. A usable interface is one which can be manipulated to achieve a desired result. This doesn’t mean that the result is something of particular value to […]

There’s no mic that’s simpler than the Catchbox – literally a crowd-microphone that is housed in a custom box that you throw around a room to allow attendees to actively participate in a meeting by asking questions (and mic’ing them so the rest of the room can hear them. The mic quality is decent, but […]