Little USB puppet jumps to attention when IM buddy comes online

Very cool homebrewed USB gadget: the Availabot. Availabot makes it easy to see when a particular friend of yours is available for instant messaging, even when you
are not sitting in-front of your computer. ... Availabot plugs into your computer by USB, stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away.

Sounds very neat, apparently, they are set up with a specific screen name so only when that screen name is used, the puppet like thing goes up. It reminds me of one of those toys that you push the button under it and it collapses, comes back together again

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