Sustainable transparent speaker by People People alerts user when parts need replacing

This video shows Swedish design company People People outlining the use of upcycled materials for its small transparent speaker.
The Small Transparent Speaker was designed and launched on Kickstarter by Stockholm studio People People as a reaction to excessive consumer waste.
Made completely from upcycled materials, the speaker can be totally disassembled to allow for each specific part to be replaced. If it should need repairing, users are alerted and instructed on what to do via an app on their smartphone.
The speaker features "premium" audio components, including two custom-made drivers that the studio claim provide "lifelike" vocals.
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[@PrahalladBadami]

Great stuff. For an ideological architect like me, this sense of responsibility is very reassuring.

[@raykdreisatzgehtanders7239]

Dude this is snake oil technology, you are so gullible...

[@alexbooth481]

Wearing sustainability as a façade for trendy marketing much like a thousand other companies at the moment. Transparent design is cool and eye-catching, but the 'sustainability' of digital modules such as bluetooth is really quite questionable.

[@westelaudio943]

Yeah, my B.S. meter went off here as well.
I think I can tell myself when my speaker is broken, don't need them to do that, or do they mean it will display an error code when it breaks down, like a modern car?
This kind of 'servicability' they think of might be appropriate for a mobile phone or laptop (for it to be worthy of marketing like that), but not an active speaker which can be a much simpler device.
We audio tinkerers have a very different idea of a servicable product, i.e. schematics, component level repair as easy as possible, no proprietary ICs and digital gimmicks, etc. This product seems to have none of such features.

[@raykdreisatzgehtanders7239]

What is the point of this "invention" , if your speaker is broken you'll notice it by decreased sound quality or no sound at all, so why do you need an extra circuit to send a message to you phone that the speaker is broken (maybe coincidentally at the point of time the company needs money)? Think about how stupid it is...
Also speakers, even active speakers, using the right components of course, can last for an very long time before needing repair, even electrolytic caps can last 50 years and are easy to replace if they fail. So a speaker with replacable components is nothing new or special at all.
Most speakers don't die from ageing but either from abuse or neglect.
This speaker seems to be full of unnecessary digital circuitry so it doesn't seem to be "build to last" at all though, especially with all those irreplaceable SMD components. You could have build an analogue, long lasting amplifier without underrated components. That can also be connected to an external bluetooth receiver for instance.
This stuff here is pure snake oil...