Hi.

Pity we couldn't buy the empeg design off them and put into production when the world is ready for the leap

Why not? I know for a fact that SonicBlue would sell the empeg design at a certain price (that I don't know yet, I backed of beforehand). Sure, we probably couldn't use it for further development, but what improvement would it need?
However, we would still need to source the necessary parts, find the appropriate production lines etc. But I'm sure someone at empeg would be willing to help us finding all that.
So: Who has the money (or is able to get it) to do so? I would certainly chime in with some more money and some hard work. Gee, I was already thinking about doing all that with just one friend helping me with the financial stuff like balancing etc.

cu,
sven