The tool is to radio what cable set-top technology is to television, said David Frerichs, Sonicbox's co-founder, chief technical officer and vice president of marketing.

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By our tool-weilding friend's reckoning, you'll be lucky not to sever a major cable artery just by opening the thing.

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