Monday January 21, 2008, Buglabs launched its first gadgets to assemble and create your own mobile phone in the same way we create mashups for the web. BUG inlcude a BUGBase and modules that you can assemble like a lego. The BugBase is a fully programmable GNU/Linux computer with 4 expansion slots for inserting modules, and you can find currently four modules available :

• UGview, a full-color, hi-res, touch-sensitive LCD screen.
• BUGmotion, a motion detector and an accelerometer.
• BUGlocate, a GPS receiver.
• BUGcam2MP, a 2 megapixel digital camera.

We asked about runing Android on BUG devices, and Jeremy Toeman, “the marketing guy” for Bug Labs, told us : “While we are not 100% sure Android runs natively on the BUG platform, from everything we’ve read it seems like it should. When we have the final production hardware we’ll find out quite quickly - I have a feeling the developer community will get fairly active in this area!”

This will be defintely a great gadget if we could get Android running on it.

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