Apple working on a boombox and other consumer electronics?

In what would be quite a departure for Apple, AppleInsider is rumoring that the company's iPod division is working up a foray into consumer electronics land next year, including products such as an iPod boombox. AI doesn't have many details to backup their claims, but their sources claim the boombox will be "unlike anything seen in boombox world," and that the device is like an oversized iPod, "ideal for use on a bookshelf or on the go." It should rock the wireless streaming, and they might throw in a hard drive and/or an iPod dock, but we'll find out soon: supposedly Apple is all prepped to announce the first of these consumer products at Macworld this January.