I am waiting for my Chumby (http://www.chumby.com/) to arrive and excited to have this little widget holder in my hands. Chumby allows you to have your entertainment and informational widgets on it rather than a webpage such as iGoogle or other RSS feed organizers. Widgets are created and developed by anyone and uses Flash as the programming language. Chumby also can be an alarm clock which means I'm going to put it at my bedside. I will be able to check the time, weather, entertainment news, iTunes music, Facebook, view my Flickr photos, and much more - before I go to sleep at night and when I wake up in the morning.Kirk Yuhnke (Brian's older brother) got one to review and did so on his blog: http://community.myfoxutah.com/blogs/KirkYuhnke/2008/03/07/Check_Out_The_Chumby
I can't wait to play with this cool little bit of technology!
Update:
Got my Chumby within a few days of ordering and am adoring it. I immediately opened it up, plugged it in, and registered my Chumby online. With the Chumby you can create multiple 'channels' with an infinite number of widget combinations. Want to have a channel just for games? You can do that. Want a channel for webcams? You can do that too! I created two channels - the default with a variety of the most interesting widgets (in my opinion) that I was pretty sure to use. A second channel is for experimentation with widgets that look interesting but that I'm not positive about.
Each widget has settings for how long the widget will display on-screen before moving to the next widget. If you engage with the widget it will not move forward until it's been inactive for that many seconds. I set most to move on in 15 seconds.
There are new widgets being created every week but for the current list see: http://www.chumby.com/guide.
If you're into Web 2.0 technologies like Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace; you can activate a widget with your personal information. If you're a Flash developer you can even create widgets for yourself or to share.
My current favorite feature on the Chumby is the Alarm system which is as versatile as you wish your ho-hum bedside alarm clock would be. You can set up weekend and/or weekday alarms, special alarms, and as many as you want. You can wake up to a traditional tone alarm or to any variety of radio stations. You can play the alarm for any amount of time before an auto snooze for (again) any amount of time. The configurations are endless and can suit your preferences for waking up.
Each widget has settings for how long the widget will display on-screen before moving to the next widget. If you engage with the widget it will not move forward until it's been inactive for that many seconds. I set most to move on in 15 seconds.
There are new widgets being created every week but for the current list see: http://www.chumby.com/guide.
If you're into Web 2.0 technologies like Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace; you can activate a widget with your personal information. If you're a Flash developer you can even create widgets for yourself or to share.
My current favorite feature on the Chumby is the Alarm system which is as versatile as you wish your ho-hum bedside alarm clock would be. You can set up weekend and/or weekday alarms, special alarms, and as many as you want. You can wake up to a traditional tone alarm or to any variety of radio stations. You can play the alarm for any amount of time before an auto snooze for (again) any amount of time. The configurations are endless and can suit your preferences for waking up.
So yes - I'm enjoying Chumby.
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