Hide Your Shame With the AK Rock Box

FACT: An overabundance of stupid plastic video-game instruments is one of the leading threats to the safety and freedom of living rooms across the world today. As much as I love pretending to be a pantsless Keith Moon in the privacy of my own home (as per the court order) those drums have a way of making just about any room look weirdly cluttered. You might as well try and store an old-timey bicycle in your living room. Despite the fact that every third game I buy seems to come with a microphone packed in, I've actually managed to whittle my living room collection down to two guitars, one drum kit, and a couple microphones, with the rest sitting in awkward piles in my garage. It is, at best, an inelegant solution to a patently ridiculous problem.

For those who don't want their living room to look like it belonged to Tom Hanks' character in Big, the goodly folks behind the AK Rock Box have got your friggin' back. Instead of just trying to cram everything into the least conspicuous corner of the room, you could get a fairly classy-looking ottoman that you can pop the top off of and store two guitars, a drum kit, and a microphone. The thing that keeps it from just being a classy-looking ottoman that you can pop the top off of, though, is its patented drum-lift technology, which is basically a scissor lift that you can mount your drums to for easy setup and breakdown. It all looks pretty solid and discreet, though it doesn't look like it would work with the Guitar Hero World Tour drums. You can pick up the AK Rock Box on Amazon right now, where it is apparently on sale for something that is close to approaching the resemblance of a reasonable price.