Press
Below is a list of recent print articles, blog posts and interviews featuring BUG and Bug Labs. If you’re interested in writing about Bug Labs or BUG, you can browse through our gallery of press images and logos at the bottom of this page.
Recent Press Coverage
Motley Fool Is This the Next IBM?
August 27th, 2009Accenture is now custom-building hardware for clients in concert with a New York start-up called Bug Labs. Bug's devices are essentially a collection of components.
BusinessWeek Accenture Goes the Tailor-Made Route
August 24th, 2009What if getting a custom-built device were as easy as making pizza? Start with a crust of a base module to run an operating system. Add a few toppings—a GPS unit, an accelerometer, a motion detector, or a 3G connection—and you've got just what your company needs. Accenture (ACN) is now in this pizza biz. The consulting giant has teamed up with Bug Labs, a New York startup, to offer hardware and software packages unique to each customer.
MAKE Online Peter Semmelhack, of Bug Labs, on "Hacking Health"
July 11th, 2009Peter Semmelhack, Founder and CEO of Bug Labs, sent us the following piece on creating an open source movement in health care technology. We thought it was interesting and something MAKE readers might want to chew over and chime in on.
Electronic Design "1 Year, $1 Million, 1 Prototype"
July 9th, 2009Experimentation is where modules and products like BUGbase come into play. It’s not a new approach, but it’s much easier now than in the past as the myriad new modules in this section attest. It is also a mindset that engineers and scientists are brought up with that’s often counter to what VPs and marketing managers want.
I.D. Magazine You Can Do It. BUG Can Help.
June 1st, 2009Open-source hardware developer Bug Labs offers a game-changing solution for upstart gadget makers.
TWiT: This Week In Tech with Leo Laporte FLOSS Weekly 70: Bug Labs
May 24th, 2009Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz discuss Bug Labs with Ken Gilmer, the company's head of software development
Nikkei Electronics Asia Everybody's a Manufacturer: Era of User-Generated Devices
May 14th, 2009Developers can make use of the public information to develop modules with new functions, and it is also possible to purchase modules from Bug Labs directly. Multiple modules can be combined like electronics blocks to create a variety of equipment using wireless local area networks (LAN). There are said to be over 1,000 developer communities already.
kanYe West UniverseCity BUGLABS MODULAR GADGET FACTORY
May 14th, 2009BUG is a set of tools that lets you mix and match its components to build your own gadget, like LEGO. Each BUGbundle includes a BUGbase, a touchscreen module, an accelerometer and motion detector, a GPS module with remote antenna, and a breakout module.
Reality Sandwich The Emergence of Open Design and Manufacturing
May 13th, 2009For this major transformation to take place however, it is also necessary to conceive of physical production in a much more modular way. This is the approach undertaken for example by Bug Labs, who offers an electronic device that can be modularly composed, with the customer choosing particular pieces that need to be put together. So rather than imagining one community working with one company, as is done in a lot of co-design and co-creation projects, imagine rather a global community of tinkerers, but also a global community of physical production houses, that can download the design and can produce things much more locally.
[technabob] buglabs open-source modular gadget factory: the modder's gadget
May 12th, 2009Bug Labs' very geeky product is the perfect Modder's Day gift. You see, BUG is a set of tools that lets you mix and match its components to build your own gadget, like LEGO but a hundred times geekier. Each BUGbundle includes a BUGbase, a touchscreen module, an accelerometer and motion detector, a GPS module with remote antenna, and a breakout module.
