What if Sims and a smart speaker had a baby? Meet the bijou speaker with a ‘tiny world inside’ — just don’t expect it to play your Spotify playlists

Mur Mur speaker and AI ecosystem in green, with moss in the background, showing the eyepiece in the top.

• Mur mur is 'a speaker that plays ambient sounds from the tiny world inside'
• No, I've never seen anything quite like it — there's an eyepiece in the top
• Still in prototype now, but the company is looking to bring it to market

Just when you thought you'd seen enough 'Eucalyptus' (or as I like to call it, 'Shrek') green audio kit for one month — and please see the new Bose QuietComfort over-ear headphones for proof — a truly unusual prototype speaker crosses your desk and makes you go "It's a… what now?"

What you're looking at is mur mur. How to describe it? Let's try 'speaker meets AI-generated terrarium on a keychain'. No? Maybe 'AI-generated ambient music linked to a tiny society, squirrelled into a physical product you can carry around, spy on and listen to as it evolves and changes'.