Okay, the device seems over-designed. Some designer went totally overboard and no one told him "no". It's just too much. It looks like some wacky art installation, but it's a device people are supposed to have in their living room, while not drawing too much attention to itself.

That's much better. It's quite interesting how people will often respond to a moderation comment with the thing that they meant to say in the first place. I call those comments rebounds.

(Although better, this one isn't good enough yet to be a good HN comment, because it's still a bit snarky. But you could easily fix that.)