Tux is alive!

[mdlbear]

In the expo here at OSCon there is a booth with a cute little animated penguin toy. It's sort of like the Nabaztag wi-fi rabbit, except that it can do a lot more (open and close its beak, flap its wings, spin around, talk using text-to-speech, ...), costs quite a bit less, and all the software is open source. The company website is kyosh.com; there's also a user/community website at tuxisalive.com. The bottom of the box lists "fully Linux-compatible PC" under system requirements. How cool is that?

Yeah, I bought one. Darned near bought one for one of the kids, but I didn't think either of them wanted to learn to program it. I'll happily be proved wrong, though. Probably just as well; it's going to be tight in the suitcase with just one.