BUG - "The LEGO of Gadgets"

TheBrutalTruth writes "Bug Labs will soon be launching what Webware calls 'the LEGO of gadgets.' From their site: '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/web community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program, and share innovative devices and applications. We don't define the final products — you do.'" Looks a bit vaporous, but conceptually interesting.

Comments

Re:more interesting..

[mabhatter654]

you'd like Gumstix, it's closer to what you want.

http://www.gumstix.com/

Whatever happened to LEGO of electronics?

[autophile]

I remember about 30 years ago, there was this set with these little clear plastic cubes. Each cube contained a discrete component: a resistor, transistor, wire, whatever. You could fit the cubes together to make a circuit. I don't remember what that was, or whatever happened to it.

Maybe it was German. I remember my dad used to bring me home a lot of Philips electronics kits from his business trips to Europe.

--Rob