yeah thr mtrx looks quite interesting. Esp. that it's not just a closed do-one-thing machine but has a few possible roles standalone or connected to comp software like the Max patches described in that article.
Another French machine: the
midipal does some useful stuff as well.
It's a small & difficult market - against iPad apps it seems to me - nowadays. Tho the mtrx 8 looks x 1 million cooler than a tablet.