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2009-07-20

SLAX Linux -- Pocket Operating System

Slax - your pocket operating system

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

clipped from www.slax.org

Key features

Slax 6 is small

Slax 6 is portable

Slax 6 is feature rich

Slax 6 is multilingual

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SLAX Linux - Your pocket operating system - Review

SLAX is a small, live Linux distro, based on Slackware. It aims to be light, friendly and useful. It's meant to fit onto antique USB thumb drives and run well on old hardware. And it features the sexy KDE desktop. Plus there's a revolutionary modules management. This fine list of features made it a worthy candidate for testing. The version chosen for this review was 6.0.9.

Applications

Modules

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Slax FAQ: Installing Slax on USB Flash Drive

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Slax Presentation

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2008-09-29

Bug Labs Lego-like Gadgets

With BUG, a collection of Lego-like hardware modules you can easily build your own electronic gadgets

clipped from www.buglabs.net

Products
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest, letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/online community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program and share innovative devices and applications. We don’t define the final products – you do.

BUGbase

BUGview

BUGmotion

BUGcam2MP

BUGlocate

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Roll Your Own Hardware, or Dr. Dobb's Does Bug Labs

clipped from www.theregister.co.uk

Version 1.3 will see completely new modules offering GSM, WiFi and ZigBee wireless - along with an upgrade to the existing BUGbase unit that these and existing modules plug into. The BUGbase is also adopting SD flash memory to provide capacity at a low price.

clipped from news.cnet.com

Open-source gadgets at LinuxWorld

The Bug Base now has a Web browser.

2008-09-02

MultiTouch -- Scalable Modular Displays

Clipped from: YouTube - Introducing the MultiTouch Cell

Introducing the MultiTouch Cell

Introducing the world's first modular multi-touch display. The MultiTouch Cell can be used to create kiosks and large wall or table top displays. Screens made from MultiTouch Cells can be used in any orientation, in all light conditions, and simultaneously by any number of users. The Multitouch Cell is available in 32" and 46" variations; in both Full HD or HD-ready LCD's.

Clipped from: First Modular Multi-Touch LCD Screen Takes Aim At Microsoft

First Modular Multi-Touch LCD Screen Takes Aim At Microsoft

Depending on their needs, MultiTouch customers can buy dozens of LCD modules and arrange them in any way they wish without worrying about connectivity. Each LCD module features HDMI, FireWire, and USB ports and can be connected to a Mac, Linux or Windows computer, meaning each screen in the setup can display one large image or something different.

Clipped from: MultiTouch - Modular MultiTouch LCD

Truly Scalable MultiTouch Display

The MultiTouch Cell is also flexible when it comes to installation size. Want a bigger display – then just add another module. Want to run 4 or 6 displays – just add more graphics cards to your computer.
MultiTouch CornerStone Software

The MultiTouch LCDs are controlled by the MultiTouch CornerStone software. Cornerstone handles the core multitouch functionality, tracking users hands as they move on the screen. In addition CornerStone includes a powerful interaction and rendering engine, that is based on industry standard libraries and protocols.

2008-06-10

Scientists are building a new kind of robots capable of self-assembly and doing tasks too difficult or too dangerous for human beings. These modular robots are also able to deliberately change their shape by rearranging the connectivity of their parts, in order to adapt to new circumstances, perform new tasks, or recover from damage.

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Modular Reconfigurable Robotics is an approach to building robots for various complex tasks. Instead of designing a new and different mechanical robot for each task, you just build many copies of one simple module. The module can't do much by itself, but when you connect many of them together you get a system that can do complicated things. In fact, a modular robot can even reconfigure itself -- change its shape by moving its modules around -- to meet the demands of different tasks or different working environments.

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