Who would have thought that the latest design trend for iPod docks would be tubes? And no, we don't mean the Internet(s).
A few months back we wrote of a vacuum tube docking stereo for music players that had been developed in Japan. Now we see that U.K.-based Roth Audio has a similar idea with its "Music Cocoon" system.
The Roth version doesn't have speakers but does sport the same mad-scientist-lab look of the Japanese version and promises superior quality at its price of 400 pounds, or about $768 (which is a bit more than the $600 Japanese model, even without the speakers). And regardless of the sound quality, as Shiny Shiny suggests, you could always fashion it into a mini-bar.