"Late one Saturday morning last December, after a couple months using my Aether Cone, the 'thinking' speaker played David Bowie's 'Changes.' I pressed the soft button in the center of the sleek, chrome-plated player, and out came the swaggering piano and sharp blast of sax. 'Oh yeah,' cooed Bowie. 'That'll do just fine,' I thought, walking away from the wireless speaker sitting on the desk in my bedroom in order to do a few chores."

"For the next half hour, the Cone played a selection of classic rock songs spanning the decades: Queen's "Somebody to Love" into The Cars' "I'm Not the One" into T.Rex's "Lean Woman Blues" into The Velvet Underground's 'I'm Sticking With You' into The Move's 'I Can Hear the Grass Grow' into Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' I was feeling the progressively adventurous run from T.Rex through The Move, while years of classic rock radio consumption has left me comfortably numb to 'The Wall.' Then, out of nowhere: late era Foo Fighters. I thought you knew me, Aether Cone."