Stick-on speaker
"seriously loud" they said. It was basically a tiny amplifier with a small speaker attached to the flanged end of a sink plunger, you were supposed to attach it to any reverbrant surface (table, window, picture on wall, box) and it provided a room-filling wave of sound.

Aha! thought I! An end to amplifier carrying misery. Just turn up to the back room of the pub with the jam session, keyboard in one hand and this magical box in the other, and a fond farewell to cadging lifts.

It wasn't. It sounded like a small speaker left on a table. Never used it again.

Apologies for length, but it was flanged at the end and would stick to pretty much anything.
(nordelius, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:24, 4 replies)

They had summat like that
on the telly on Sunday, it was supposed to be a mini ghettoblaster, they put it on a table and it was fucking shit. Cost about £80.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 21:09, closed)

Flange
Is this the best word in the English language? Flangetastic mate.
(WankSpanner ...seeks spanner wankerer, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 20:55, closed)

the audiobug?
I don't think there's anything more apt to convey the feeling of technological despair this qotw is designed to provoke.

bought one off firebox about 5 years ago expecting it to be not shit, and I threw it in the unrecyclable bin a couple of weeks ago having used it not much.

still I think anyone who buy's a product that shite deserves everything they get
(anonymouse sitting in front of a screen since 1989, Sun 2 Oct 2011, 20:49, closed)

Yes
... and yes, sadly.
(nordelius, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 15:00, closed)