Japanese USB hub/speaker system.

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Just...look at it:



Details: http://www.everythingusb.com/umazone-us0498-tube-usb-speaker-18239.html

*Sigh.*

Bonus link: Rather too much input from Stuart Miles (a cheeky young pup who was predicting the death of the netbook the other day*, and believes that Sky+ has "changed the way I watch television and freed me from the schedules"...er, like a VCR never did that?), but Rory Cellan-Jones' self-explanatory piece is worth a look...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/12/gadgets_of_the_noughties.html

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8421491.stm