[wplug] News on Tux Droid - The Linux smart companion (fwd)

[Vance Kochenderfer]

Forwarded message:
> KYSOH ANNOUNCES THE BETA RELEASE OF TUX GADGETS MANAGER
> Transforming Tux Droid in a real smart companion
> 
> Mons, Belgium, September 19, 2007-- Revealed at OSCON 2006 and 
> Commercialized in March 2007, Tux Droid quickly became very popular in 
> Europe. He made the cover of magazines in France, Germany and Italy.
> 
> Launched as a wireless programmable robot specifically designed for the 
> Linux platform, Tux Droid becomes today a smart companion providing a 
> new way to access the digital world without sitting in front of your 
> computer. Looking as a cute penguin resembling the Linux mascot, Tux 
> Droid reacts to PC events and talks in more than 10 different languages.
> 
> Based on the widgets principle, Tux Gadgets are mini-applications that 
> reside on users desktops and delivers a variety of personalized 
> information such as email, weather forecast, horoscope, media player, 
> news, games, quizz etc. through Tux Droid. The Gadgets are easily 
> accessible with the remote control. In order to manage easily the 
> different gadgets, Kysoh has also developed a graphical interface called 
> Tux Gadgets Manager. These gadgets are developed in a TGF (Tux Gadget 
> Format) format, made in the spirit of ODF file and provides a wide range 
> of actions such as :
> 
>   - Let users modify and configure Gadgets without any programming 
>     skills.
>   - Let users modify easily the graphical interface to customize it as
>     they want.
>   - Let users add new gadgets (available on the community website) by
>     a simple drag and drop.
> 
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> 
> And it's exactly at this point Kysoh makes the difference. Tux Droid is 
> a smart device talking, squawking, wings flapping, eye flashing penguin 
> that you can control remotely. Send it events or updates about website 
> or have it read your RSS streams as they come in with the built-in 
> text-to-speech synthesizer. WiFi is not a requirement as it comes with 
> its own wireless solution you can plug in any USB port. The architecture 
> is completely open; all software, codes, scripts and datasheets are 
> provided freely on the community website www.tuxisalive.com 
> <http://www.tuxisalive.com/>.
> 
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The full press release is available at
<http://www.kysoh.com/Tux_Droid_En.pdf>.

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