The new AOpen AX4B-533 Tube is definitely one weird motherboard. The company has basically taken a standard Pentium 4 mobo and stuck a valve onto it to handle audio. That’s right a valve – a real glass roundy thing with glowing stuff inside (bottom left of picture). Freaky or what?

So what next, steam driven laptops? Coal burning MP3 players? [via everythingisnt and thanks to OCWorkbench for the additional photo]