It wouldn't look half as ghoulish if these guys would forget about using plexi and instead bought themselves a small benchtop sheet metal bender. Or at least used opaque plastics.

I will say that the one above doesn't look half as ghetto as the dashboard it's installed in though. With the empeg at $699 there's no way I would have ever thought about wasting time on a half-hearted solution. Even the PJRC project, which is quite small and "neat" was an idea easily put to pasture with the empeg selling for $699. With the empeg at $199-499 there's simply no way any other MP3 product could ever hope to win over a consumer. But now that the dust is settling it will be interesting to see how things develop for everyone else.

It's obvious that Japanese electronics giants (as I predicted) simply do not "get" MP3 and certainly have no clue about user-interface and database management. Hey, no one is going to touch them for low-level consumer electronics, but something like this requires a creative thinking that we just don't see in most products from the likes of Sony, Pioneer, etc.

Bruno