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I love ice, and now I love it even more. Linux can make you coffee, wash your clothes, heat your meal and it can also serve you a delicious fresh made Ice Cream. This is MooBella a Ice Machine creating your ice cream while you wait, in less than a minute it serves you your Ice Cream and they claim it's better than Häagen-Dazs. The machine runs Linux, which makes it even more interesting. It would be great if they could supply us with a mini version of this beauty for at home.

If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux This is what is called a "digital guitar" by it's designer. So it's not a electrical guitar but a device for creating digital music.

Here's the Bilda board at work, this is a hardware controller controlled by Linux via usb. It's extremely fast and allows for projection of all kinds of great shows. 360 degrees rotating laser projection, thanks to Linux control:

While you wouldn't spot me in the wild wearing the "scanner ring" I would certainly not mind owning this beauty. This is the W200 Wearable Computer it's a powerful computing device designed to be attached to the user's wrist for hands-free operation. Depicted here with windows CE, but it's available running Linux. The ultra rugged version is Linux only. (obvious as Linux is much more "rugged" after all ;-)

This is what I was looking for, an E-reader with a E-ink screen so it's easy on the eyes, but also a full color 3.5” touchscreen LCD screen ideal for web browsing. The 6” EPD screen displays like a printed page and text is adjustable for easy extended reading. What's even more interesting, the device is 3G enabled, making it possible to download content on the go. It is equipped with WiFi, 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM, making it the first truly mobile wireless e-reader device that gives you access to the Internet and your own personalized library, whenever and wherever you need it.

This is a wall mounted, touch screen, low power, linux computer. Made from recycled materials, this is a pretty environmental friendly device. They are a little expensive to my taste, but I would want one of these build in to the wall next to my bed.

a digital video camera with resolution from 160x128 to 1280x1024 pixels, laser pointer or optional ultrasonic ranging, and WLAN 802.11b/g networking on a quad-motor tracked mobile robotic base. Looks like a cool toy, doesn't it? Now add a rugged aluminum housing, gps a camera inside the housing and heavier tracks and you get this:

Watch this: a Linux powered baby dinosaur, with a arm processor heart. The robot runs Live OS. An embedded, linux based operating system which features a custom programming language, giving the possibility to interact with the robot on the programming level. It features Artificial intelligence,programmable emotions and lot's more.

If you're looking for a handheld hd multimedia device, your search ends here. This is such a cool device. The only downside is apparently the korean manufacturer can't keep up with demand as it's fully sold out at the moment of this writing.

This is the Dreambox, a Linux powered price winning digital television receiver. While it may not look like much at first, wait till you hear what special features it supports (some unofficially) ... Many Dreambox owners use these softcams together with special software for card sharing. Card sharing is when you buy one card for pay-tv and share de decryption codes generated by the card over the network.

Some manufacturers are using Linux for their television sets, Sony for instance has a impressive list of tv's which are running Linux. There are also some televisions which can actually be hacked into to unlock extra features.

While it may not look like a computer, this armored baby is actually a high performing embedded Linux System: just take a look at it's environmental specs (high tech Liquid cooling yum!): Environmental Temperature Operating*: -30°C to +50°C Storage: -40°C to +85°C *Operating temperature range stated is for the liquid-cooled chassis. Humidity: 15-90% RH non-condensing

Did you think Linux is something for geeks? Think again: This is the Mavizen electrical superbike, and it runs a custom Linux operating system!

Making music on Linux used to be something for masochists. Luckily this is long something of the past, as nowadays lot's of cool Linux software and compatible hardware is available to musicians.

Watch this, if this isn't the coolest Linux device ever, you tell me what is: Imagine this thing creeping up on you from behind. The Halluc II is a remote controlled robotic vehicle with 8 legs/wheels. It's designed to walk/drive over rugged terrain an can actually transform from walking to driving robot. It has 3 different movement modes: vehicle, animal, and insect.

The Roboat is an autonomous robotic sailboat powered by Linux. It's able to autonomously navigate towards any given target without human control or intervention.

Measuring at just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches this is the smallest Desktop PC. And it's running Linux, one more point for Linux coolness.

Too bad it's only for professional use the HGZ Linux based coffee machine. I'd love to have on of these. A Dream come true. The Linux coffee maker. Embedded Linux on a coffee machine, touch screen. Build on Qt framework. Have Linux brew your coffee, finally a stable cup of coffee. Demo-ed at the Embedded World in Nurmberg Germany by Qt:

There's a lot Linux can not do(yet) but you'll be suprised what it's already being used for. Look at this: a microwave running Linux (yes we can!) and a washing machine also.

I'm not really a music lover, but would I have been an artist it would surely be my choice: A keyboard running Linux on common hardware, at least the operating system. This is really a very Cool device.