The Original will reproduce music wirelessly from any device with Bluetooth or directly through the 3.5 mm connection so it can be used as a premium external speaker system for iPad, Kindle, a laptop computer, electric guitar and more.
Also, my dorm's high-speed Internet connection allowed me to stream musicfrom noncommercial stations all around the world, like BBC Radio 1, to see what we would be listening to stateside in another six months.