Tech Eye: Making the couch cool

Then, while on a flight of fantasy where we imagine being paid to write for a living and having the rugged good looks of, say, a George Clooney or an Adam West, we also like to imagine the products we would make if only we had technical know-how, ample resources and the ability to get out of bed before noon. What the world really needs, we decided on our last bender, is a fantastic gadget that took all the music stored on all the MP3 players, computers, devices, toasters and other assorted paraphernalia in your house and lets you access it all at the same time. Furthermore, this mythical machine must not have wires but we insist on fantastic sound from stunning-looking speakers. And we want a nice hand-held thingy with a color screen that controls the whole show in all the rooms of the house. Also, it has to make us more attractive to women, and time travel would be a bonus. Then we found this by Sonos, available from www.sonos.com for around zł.4,000, and quite frankly we're in love, although our lonely hearts ad continues its dismal response rate of not a bean and we have yet to see what dinosaurs look like close-up. Still, seeing as with the Sonos we have one less reason to get off the couch, we're not complaining.