January 8, 2009

Las Vegas – USA, January 8, 2009 - Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST), a multi-award winning Australian based specialist in advanced user interface technology for consumer electronics, together with Zylux Acoustic Corporation (“Zylux”), a world renowned Taiwan based design and manufacturing company for high quality consumer electronics, today announced results of their initial collaboration: the Rich Internet Appliance Reference Design.

This reference design brings together 3 of the most popular rich Internet services; YouTube, Picasa and Internet Radio, into a single design, suitable for use by leading brands. The design delivers a fresh user experience with rich and dynamic graphics, high quality audio and a touchscreen interface.

The heart of the system is FST's FancyPantsTM software platform, providing next-generation graphical user interface (GUI) technology for OEMs and ODMs of consumer and other electronics. FancyPants' unique multimedia capabilities and Ruthlessly EfficientTM runtime enable customers to differentiate their products with dramatically enhanced user experiences, bringing them to market faster, with reduced hardware requirements and lower development costs.

The hardware platform is an Atmel AVR32 based AP7000, running Linux.

Packaged as another unique consumer electronics design from Zylux Acoustic Corporation (“Zylux”) means that customers of Zylux's reference design can create something individual at a cost effective price point.

“Zylux sees innovation as the key to success and we are expanding our product portfolio into new and emerging markets where the consumer's lifestyle will be augmented by products aggregating and displaying information and media. In these new markets, the user experience is a crucial factor.”

FST's FancyPants product is unique in its ability to deliver high performance graphics, audio and video and unrestricted layout for embedded products. Together with FST's responsive and professional team, we see much potential in the combined offering of Zylux and FST” said Paul Yip, CTO Zylux.

“FST is pleased to be working with Zylux. We see Zylux being at the forefront of design innovation and a natural partner. Together, we're creating game changing products to address the emerging consumer market for Rich Internet Appliances” said Robi Karp, CEO FST.

To see the Rich Internet Appliance Reference Design at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – Las Vegas, please go to The Mirage Resort and Casino. A video can be downloaded from www.fluffyspider.com/downloads/fp-radio-picasa-youtube-480x384-33MB.zip

 

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About FST

FST specializes in providing advanced GUI and high-performance multimedia products for embedded application development, as well as comprehensive custom development services. FST's flag-ship product is the multi-award winning FancyPants™ platform, enabling OEM/ODM's to lead with dramatically enhanced user interfaces. FancyPants speeds time to market, is very hardware resource efficient, flexible and portable. Since 1995, customers include Toshiba, VeriFone, Ericsson, HP, Optus, Vodafone and GEC.

For more information, visit www.fluffyspider.com or email: info@fst.net.

About Zylux

Zylux is a privately held Taiwan based Original Equipment and Design Manufacturing Company with offices in China, Hong Kong and North America. Founded in 1980, Zylux specializes in consumer electronics systems working with renowned technology partners servicing major brands with a focus on lifestyle and audio products. Zylux's state-of-the-art production campuses in Shenzhen and Suzhou, China, are high volume capacity factories employing thousands of staff. Zylux has products in diverse markets, such as PC Speaker, MP3 / Digital Media Player, Satellite and Internet Radio, TV, Car and HD Radio. Zylux lists many internationally known brands as major customers, such as Dell, HP / Compaq, Harman / Kardon, Klipsch, Polk Audio, Boston Acoustic, JBL, BenQ, Philips, Compal, Blaupunkt and SiriusXM.

For further information, please visit www.zyluxacoustic.com or email: wyatt.briant@e-zylux.com.