Cool Gadgets - The Tux Droid programable desktop companion

The Tux Droid is a felt-covered desktop companion that uses wireless technology to fetch information from the wonderful web and convey it to you in various. ways.

The Tux Droid comes with a USB fish transmitter which beams info to him anywhere in the house, so he can alert you to incoming emails in the kitchen, RSS feeds in the front room, weather reports in the bathroom or breaking news in the bedroom.

He is fully customizable and programmable, he can talk, dance and lots more.

Check out this video of it in action.

Here’s the specs

• Wirelessly connects to your PC
• Sound and light monitors, which can be programmed to activate features
• Button on his head and ‘clickers’ on either wing to activate commands
• IR receiver for the remote control provided and IR transmitter
• Motorised spinning motion, flashing eyes, blinking or speaking to alert you
• Text to speech in 12 languages, including English, French, Belgian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, American English and Portuguese
• Open source software allowing for programming of widgets
• Finished in a fogging skin material (similar to felt/velvet)
• Program Tux Droid as an alarm clock so you can wake up to your favourite song
• Let Tux Droid remind you when you have an appointment in your diary
• Use his clickers on his wings as volume controls for your TV or MP3s
• Take Tux Droid to your bathroom to listen to the news broadcast
• Program Tux to be a remote control for your PC, activating multimedia applications
• Use Tux Droid as a portable speaker to stream music from your computer or internet radio
• Program Tux Droid to function as a wireless VOIP phone
• Use as a security device by utilising light sensors and the IR transmitter to turn on your TV when it gets dark

The Tux Droid is available to buy online from Firebox for £89.95 (about $180).

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