Squint hard enough and you'll see the D-Link Pebble, a streaming media player that should play "virtually all" of your media files on your big screen TV.
Much like throwing a pebble into a stream, the ripples continued to flow outwards to trigger other ideas and attract interest.
These are great people working to solve a grave problem in their own small way, hoping that every little bit helps -- kind of like dropping a pebble in a stream and seeing the ripples spread seemingly ever outward.
"I'm preoccupied with this question of when an individual becomes either a pebble in the stream of history or one who drives the turns of history," the 67-year-old Romanian-born, Israeli-raised director told me.
In the Sacred Valley, I was walking along with my son and he started throwing pebbles into this stream.
The best group I have ever seen grows in shade in a Scottish garden, where the flowering stems push through a beach of pebbles alongside a stream.
"Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion," was how Hadid herself described this £130m building, which was designed to blend in perfectly with its riverside setting.
Her stories of Adamsberg negotiating his rural Pyrenees roots with his job in a Parisian murder squad - in the latest novel, he places a pebble from a village stream on the desks of his wearily perplexed staff after a trip home - have not only topped the French bestseller lists, but stormed the English-speaking world.
The entryway, marked discreetly with a small lit sign, is a stream of pebbles inset in stone and splashed with water, the traditional sign of welcome.
The slow second movement of the Bach, like a gentle stream flowing over pebbles, prompted a collective hush.
