Music Thing: Sonoric Synth

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment:

While the rest of the world speculates frenetically about video iPods and Microsoft tablets, the world of Men Who Like Synthesizers have their own half-baked renders to ponder. This is the Sonoric Synth,
a new and as yet unseen synth from Holland, which might possibly surface at the vast MusikMesse trade show in Germany at the end of this month.

There are two interesting things about the Sonoric Synth. The first is that it looks quite nice. Obviously this is debatable, but in a world of ugly black plastic boxes, this one looks interesting.
It's quite reminiscent of boutique synths from Scandinavia, and the very covetable boxes made by Elektron.

The other interesting thing is how it works.
Sonoric claim that their synth contains "analogue synthesizer circuits... with the ability to program and re-program these circuits in any configuration we want". A company called Anadigm produce programmable analog chips, which can build different analog circuits by changing how the transistors connect together. If these is what Sonoric are using (and I'm speculating wildly here), then the Sonoric Synth could be really interesting. If not?
It's still a nice looking box.