I believe they call it convergence. This is why Swiss Army knives are so fantastic; they serve multiple purposes and come with multiple tools, all without having to be all that much bigger. We already experience this with our smartphones, which have come to replace our cameras, PDAs and MP3 players, so why not take the same kind of approach to all of our mobile accessories too? Why only do one thing when you can do many things?

The team at Creative must have been thinking the same thing when they came up with the Sound BlasterAxx AXX200. You might think that it's just another Bluetooth speaker that you can use to share your tunes, but this ?intelligent wireless sound system? is so much more than that. They?ve thrown everything at it but the kitchen sink, but does it really work?