Is this an alien monster from outer space or just a bunch of round speakers? At $26,000, they're not cheap, but then space travel has always been costly. These speakers, named DMT-100, balance on a stand that incorporates a technology called driver manipulation. That means the arms can be moved and the speakers can be pointed and adjusted for height to achieve the best sound.

Proclaim Audio says the spherical enclosures are the best shape to originate sound because of their characteristically smooth frequency response. The idea is that the speaker shape creates the sound, not the room acoustics. Proclaim has a home theater system is the works, too, and we can only wonder which galaxy it'll come from. — Ken Sander