Vestalife Butterfly

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Vestalife Butterfly

For the slew of companies creating speaker docks for the Apple iPod, distinguishing their products from the masses can be a bit of a challenge. Creating an eye-catching design is just one of the many ways to tackle this issue, and an increasing design trend is the animal-inspired speaker. Such is the case with the Vestalife Butterfly, a funky speaker dock that every iPod-toting 11-year-old girl will be scrambling to obtain. At $79, the Vestalife Butterfly is priced fairly, given the neat design and fair amount of features, but sound quality is definitely not its strong suit.

As the name suggests, the Vestalife Butterfly is shaped like the oft-collected winged insect. More specifically, it's roughly square in shape, except with pinched in edges to give the illusion of wings. The unit is constructed of white plastic with a rather overly large cut-out in the center front for the iPod dock. Vestalife includes three colored face plates in green, red, and blue that can be snapped onto the front to change the look of the speaker. There are three silver buttons on the front: one for power and two for volume. Other functionality is controlled via the iPod itself, and no remote is packaged with the unit.