SpeakerCraft Chooses FST FancyPants for Home Media Equipment

Leading Architectural Audio and Video Supplier Builds on FST GUI Technology for New Streaming Media Product Line

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST), provider of award-winning FancyPants® user interface (UI) technology for consumer electronics, today announced that SpeakerCraft, a U.S. developer and manufacturer of high quality home audio and video equipment, has chosen FST FancyPants for its new line of home media products. SpeakerCraft media center products employ FancyPants as the central element in the user experience. Displaying on the home TV and remote control, FancyPants, seamlessly ties together multiple sources of audio, video and distributing multimedia throughout the home.

“The unique capabilities of FancyPants, combined with its incredible performance, make it a perfect solution for SpeakerCraft home media products.”

The FST FancyPants software platform provides next-generation graphical UI technology for OEMs and ODMs of consumer and other electronics. FancyPants unique multimedia capabilities and Ruthlessly Efficient™ runtime enable device manufacturers like SpeakerCraft to differentiate their products with dramatically enhanced user experiences. FancyPants also helps manufacturers maintain margins and achieve aggressive price points by supporting cost-effective hardware and by lowering development and deployment costs.

In the home media center, FancyPants lets SpeakerCraft integrate multimedia content and dynamic visual effects into a high performance device user interface. “Fluffy Spider, a clear leader in embedded graphics and multimedia, gives SpeakerCraft the edge needed to engage and excite consumers,” said Jeremy Burkhardt, SpeakerCraft CEO. “The unique capabilities of FancyPants, combined with its incredible performance, make it a perfect solution for SpeakerCraft home media products.”

“It is extremely exciting to see SpeakerCraft build on FancyPants to create multimedia systems that really wow consumers,” commented Robi Karp, FST CEO. “Our goal at FST is help customers succeed in the global marketplace by delivering innovative, high-performance and profitable products.”

About FancyPants

FST FancyPants is the next generation high performance multimedia and graphics platform for embedded and mobile applications. FancyPants helps device OEMs enhance product differentiation by creating eye-catching and user friendly interfaces with embedded multimedia. FancyPants comprises a powerful SDK to simplify the development of rich user interfaces, and an optimized runtime environment for maximum performance. FancyPants is deployed by creators of innovative consumer, commercial and industrial devices.

FancyPants features a high efficiency runtime with a small resource footprint, multiple axes of abstraction, together with a plug-in architecture for media, display subsystems and hardware accelerated graphics capabilities, With FancyPants, UI code is portable and can automatically take advantage of new hardware, media types and CODECs. View on-line demonstrations of FST FancyPants at: www.fluffyspider.com/demos/live_videos/live_videos.html

About Fluffy Spider Technologies

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 OEMs and ODMs to lead with dramatically enhanced user interfaces. FancyPants speeds time-to-market, is extremely resource efficient, flexible and portable. Founded in 1995, customers include Toshiba, VeriFone, SpeakerCraft, Ericsson, HP, Optus, Vodafone and GEC.

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About SpeakerCraft

SpeakerCraft is a pioneer and a leading innovator in custom-installed loud speakers and electronics. The company designs and markets its own branded products, which are sold through a global network of authorized dealers. Established in 1976, SpeakerCraft has been devoted for more than a decade to the design and development of architectural loudspeakers and serves as an OEM/ODM for many well-known, in-wall speaker brands.