Saitek's Cool Looking (and Sounding) Wireless Speaker System

Best known for game controllers, Saitek has moved into digital audio with a surprisingly attractive-looking, and sounding, speaker system.

The company's A-250 is a wireless 2.1 speaker system that is intended to play music from a PC or laptop hard drive. While it looks a lot like a fancy boom box, uses Class One Bluetooth technology which allows it to pick up a stream of music from up to 100 feet away through walls.

The self-amplified A-250, which can also take input from portable audio players via a 3.5 mm jack, has a respectable 90HZ-18kHZ frequency response packs a lot of punch for such a small unit thanks to its neodymium speakers.

Setting up the speakers is trivial. Users simply connect a USB dongle to their PC or laptop, push a button, and the A-250 is ready to go.

This very clever product should start appearing in retailers this month, but is also now available at the Saitek web site. It's priced at $129.