"Bug Labs is tying to make hardware hacking nearly as easy as code mashing with its Bug platform: A series of components that snap together like Legos to form new gadgets.
Four modules (enough to fill every socket on the base) will be available when the product debuts before the end of the year: A GPS receiver -- next to the base in the photo above -- and, from bottom left to right, -- a motion sensor, a touch-sensitive LCD screen and a camera. Bug labs hopes to release four new modules per season -- if they can score the parts.
The Bug Base – a Linux computer that forms the heart of any gadget -- is a trim 5 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches. Not quite as small as an iPhone, but not much bigger. And the modules are a tiny 2.5 inches square by a quarter inch thick."
Update from MIT Technology Review
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