We were skeptical. A device that looks like a PC workstation with a mic and that will let you do everything a radio station does just did not sound right. I mean, don't you at least need a small building, or even a large floor, like the radio station had at my highly prestigious alma mater where the radio station looked like a jail compared to the special football player luxury-suite dormitories? But evidently, the WorldVibrations Radio Station (WVRS) does just what its marketing folks say it does, and it seems to work well, too, at least during demonstrations.

Aside from a transmitter, the radio station in a box offers over-the-air, Internet or satellite broadcasting as soon as you take the system out of its carton. It is just a matter of describing what any radio station does to describe its operation as either an "on-air" or production studio that also offers streaming media encoding.

Holding an event and want to broadcast live? You plug in a microphone and start speaking, singing or preaching on the spot.

Want automated programming? It will schedule programming, announcements, news, network feeds and music to run unattended 24 hours a day. For music stations, selections can be shuffled according to frequency of play, tempo, genre, artist or other criteria.

Stayed tuned for more about how easy it is to plug, play and operate this radio in a box device.