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Bored of your Nabaztag? Or have you perhaps not made the plunge and bought your own inanimate but undeniably adorable computer friend yet? Well, if the rabbit isn’t your style or is wearing a little thin on charm, this may be for you!

Tux Droid, from Firebox.com, comes at a somewhat spendy £90.00, but you’re guaranteed to love him. He is exclusively a Linux friend (will not work on Windows or Mac machines), and has a range of fun and useful features.

Basically Tux Droid is a felt-covered desktop companion that utilises wireless technology to fetch information from the wonderful web and convey it to you in various charming ways. His accompanying USB fish transmitter (no, really!) beams info to him anywhere in the house, so he can alert you to incoming emails in the kitchen, RSS feeds in the front room, weather reports in the bathroom or breaking news in the bedroom. And he can do it by dancing, spinning, flapping or flashing – it’s up to you. Simply get busy with the customisable (is that a word?) software. The possibilities are endless.

Believe it or not, Tux Droid also doubles up as a wireless VoIP phone, an MP3 speaker and an alarm clock that rouses you with any sound you fancy. And thanks to nifty sound sensors you can program him to function as an intruder alarm. He’ll even tell you how dark it is and turn off your telly! Versatile? He makes Bruce Forsyth look like a one-trick pony!

Intrigued? Get over to firebox.com and adopt your Tux Droid today!