This ingenious TV bench is secretly an elite projector screen – with hidden compartments for your home theater speakers or soundbar
- It looks like a TV bench but accommodates a retractable screen and a UST projector
- Fabric-covered compartments hide a soundbar or speakers
- Available without screen, with screen and with additional motorized projection plate
The Norstone Eden Vision solves one of the big problems with home theater setups with large screen projectors: they can dominate your room, which means that even though giant screens are becoming more and more popular, many people avoid them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could make it disappear completely when you don’t need it? This is what the Eden Vision is designed for.
The Eden Vision lets you have your AV cake and eat it, because inside what looks like a TV is a huge ALR (high contrast) screen and space for one of the best ultra-short throw projectors. It also has space to store your speakers and/or soundbar behind a black surface, so everything is as minimal as possible.
In all honesty, I don’t even know if I would watch a movie about it: I’d be too busy fading the screen in and out and pretending my remote control was a magic wand.
Norstone Eden Vision: key features and pricing
The Norstone Eden Vision is designed to accommodate the majority of commercially available UST projectors and houses the aforementioned 100-inch Lumene projection screen.
This screen rises on demand and disappears into the cabinet when you’re done. It’s important that it’s an ALR screen because this technology significantly improves the brightness, contrast and color depth of images from UST projectors – the smart material ensures that light coming from the direction of the projector bounces towards your eyes, while light coming from other directions is reflected away from you, so it interferes less with what you’re supposed to see – we have an article on the difference this type of projector screen makes here.
There are dedicated sections for the projector and for your speakers or soundbar, and the side and center compartments have doors fitted with acoustically transparent black fabric to let sound out unimpeded, but this means the speakers aren’t otherwise visible.
And the Eden Vision is also available with an optional motorized sliding tray to automatically adjust the projector’s position, if you choose to use it with a larger screen and need to add more distance.
The spaces for the soundbar and speakers are generously sized: for the speakers, the spaces measure 460mm high x 400mm deep and 830mm wide, and the soundbar section measures 140mm high, 2,500mm wide and 185mm deep. This should therefore accommodate most of the best soundbars on the market.
The dimensions of the Eden Vision are 2,634 mm in width, 510 mm in height and 600 mm in depth.
Certainly, it’s not cheap. The Eden Vision is available in three versions: without screen at £1,200 (around $1,575 / AU$2,405); with the Eden Extra Bright 240C Display for £3,500 ($4,595 / AU$7,015); and with the screen and motorized projector plate for £3,750 ($4,925 / AU$7,515).
We only know of UK and European availability at the moment, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled for a global release as it really does sound like a great idea. I’d be much more likely to have the 100-inch movie screen of my dreams if it simply transformed into a practical-looking sideboard when not in use, instead of looking like I lived on the starship Enterprise.
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