Hugo saw it, and even got a video of it on his handycam. He's got a lot of opinions about it, I'll let him reply here if he sees this thread.

The only two major empeg-competitors at CES were this unit and the Sony unit. And from what Hugo told me about them, they aren't much competition, for various reasons. One of them had a pretty interesting mechanical fold-down face, but beyond that, I thought the empeg was a much more useful product with more features. If only for the storage space alone.