[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“A tiny, Linux-based gateway has won an award for hardware
innovation at the 2007 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this
week. SSV Embedded Systems’s ‘Tux/Stick’ interfaces between
USB-enabled PCs and various industrial and embedded networks,
including LANs, WiFi networks, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and
in-car networks.“The Tux/Stick looks like a typical USB memory stick. And, one
end does plug into a USB port, just like a memory stick, drawing
power from the host PC and booting a tiny ARM9-powered processor
running Linux…”