Hasta La Ideas

The beauty of playing with building blocks when you’re a toddler is that those simple wooden cubes can be anything you want: A skyscraper, a car, a robot.

BUGlabs’ new BUGsound, designed by ECCO, is a building block of a different sort, filled with tech goodness: “A flush-mount 20-mm speaker and omnidirectional microphone with hardware stereo codecs and four 3.5-mm stereo jacks for third-party inputs, outputs, headphones and microphones.” Give the thing some juice, then you decide what it is–a portable music player, speakerphone, mic, audio processor, or whatever your little hacking heart desires. Conversation is already underway on their blog, here.

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BUGlabs and ECCO

BUGlabs and IDEO go open source

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