Old speakers are thrown out every day, laid to rest in favor of shiny new portable speaker systems from Jawbone, Beats and Bose. SEE ALSO: Look out Sonos, Vizio's coming for you with its Google ...

I have lots of cool tech in my home office space, and I’m particularly proud of my Uplift standing desk, but it’s these decade-plus-old speakers that get the most comments when people see them.

Basically, two LP records are molded into a shape similar to old gramophone speakers (before modern record players were a thing), using two more records as the back panel and a front-facing display.

Meet the news boss, handily better than the old boss and even more of a class ... the latest version of its all-conquering portable Bluetooth speaker series, and the result is an obvious front ...