connected. very much. and they know they ve got their wifi, their music and they are mobile. and music is big. and this is a great gift here. this is awesome. it s the logitech ue air speaker. it s an air play enabled speaker. that means, it works with apple s devices. it just streams it over the wifi, uncompressed audio so it sounds better than if you are sending it via bluetooth. wow. so, for instance, i ve got it connected here. and so just using the there s a few buttons here and it comes through the speaker. and you can send it there or right back to your ipad. any time you want. so you are in control of the whole thing. wow. wirelessly and right to the speaker. wirelessly. also what s great, you can dock your stuff here. it charges, or if you don t have those devices, it s got a jack in the back you can play other devices.