Lots of companies are dressing up their electronic gadgets to look like sport utility vehicles.
Portable stereos have non-slip grips and hard plastic shells.
Boomboxes come with reinforced housing and metal grilles. The gadgets are supposed to look as if they were built for a trip across the Australian Outback. But no matter how tough they look, the radios and stereos all run on batteries. And when they're out of juice, you're out of tunes. That's not so with a new line of radios produced by a South African company called Freeplay .