News at 11: At trade show, major company shows off cool prototype it will never sell

“First of all,” warns Ubergizmo, “this media server is a concept, not a commercial product.”

And yet it has specifications. [Ubergizmo]

1. [MrWeeble]

   Looks like it would be a fingerprint magnet, but who wouldn’t want a dodecahedral box sitting in their lounge. I would call mine Dodo!

2. [TedJohnson]

   If you shake it, does it tell your fortune?

   Seriously: This looks like one of the cheap desk calendar doodads that banks used to give a way.

3. [trr]

   dodecahedron (a Platonic solid) != cubeoctahedron (an Archimedean solid)

4. [OM]

   …And if you push the right buttons, it turns into a Starfleet Redshirt who thought she was dead!

5. [word_virus]

   Hehe. It’s like the unholy love-child of Swarovski and Sun Microsystems!

6. [Halloween Jack]

   Toshiba Media Server is made of redshirt!

7. [muteboy]

   It looks like a Draconian super weapon from Buck Rogers, or the Visitor self-destruct thing from V. Is Glen Larson missing a prop?

8. [Anonymous]

   This is almost a spitting image of the EPICAC from the Vonnegut show of his story!

   I own it on commercial DVD, bought from the bottom of the $3 bin at Giant Tiger! Woohoo!