Aesthetically, the single speaker system looks like exactly what you'd expect from Creative, all black, with the vast majority of the rectangle monopolize by mesh and shiny plastic ends on either side.

ENGADGET: Creative D5 Air Airplay speaker hits IFA, readies itself for a late-September release

Rising up from the desolation is the one shiny thing on the New York side's skyline, the new Seneca Niagara Casino, a hopeful mirage where grannies, suburbanites and cash-strapped locals two-thirds of whom subsist on public assistance unload lives of quiet desperation, quarter by quarter, into the slots.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Inventing Niagara'

Would you rather have a shiny cube of metal, 67 feet on a side or trillions of dollars of assets that actually produce wealth?

FORBES: What If Warren Buffett Is Right About Gold?