Kumazaki aim NE-388 audio system - Upfront

Japan, Inc., Feb, 2003

For a company that appears to be able to provide a veritable Aladdin's cave of products, knocking out everything from battery chargers to air conditioners and window cleaners, Kumazaki Aim has miraculously produced a pretty stylish touch-panel CD system with a credit card-size remote. The big deal with this system, however, is that there are no buttons on the fascia at all -- users simply prod their pinky at the LCD display to operate the various functions. Very neat. The NE-388 has a CD player that will play all your (perfectly legal, officer) CD-R/RW discs, a built-in AM/FM tuner and -- you're going to love this bit -- seven different colors for that backlit LCD touch panel display, which you can hopefully turn off. It's a shelf-type mini-system, weighing only 2.5 kg and with dimensions of 470x145x205 mm -- small and light enough, claims Kumazaki Aim, to hang it on a wall. You go first. [yen]14,800.

More info: www.kumazakiaim.co.jp