Ladies and germs: the Chumby One. Hot on the heels of its soft, leathery older brother, the Chumby One goes for a more non-nonsense aesthetic with hard edges and a more clock-radio feel. As you recall, the device costs $99.95 and allows you to play back little widgets on a tiny touchscreen. It is at once banal in its simplicity and amazingly unfettered in the amount of content you can stream to the device.
Our Chumby One came pre-installed with a few widgets including our own news feed and Twitter, which lets you view your Tweets whenever the widget rolls around. I’m going to place this thing on my desk and treat it like a third screen in order to really test the value of this wee fellow. More soon.
Special note: the battery is not included and is an optional part available from Chumby.
Sucks that you can’t get them shipped to Canada right now.
Dammit Biggs stop getting all the fun toys!
Eesh – is this branded by Coby and available at Walgreen’s?
Chumby has been talking for 2 years about delivering their content on other devices but I only see that you can view their content on the Chumby device – have they switched business models yet again?
I just assumed I wasn’t the only one using their smartphones as alarm clocks rendering this thing completely useless!
I have had a Chumby for about 3 years…loved it at first but have not used it in almost 2 years…the touch screen is very inaccurate and connecting to some routers is a headache. The idea of Chumby is interesting but the execution on the product and marketing side is weak.
chumby made the big mistake of not allowing the British to have access to this gadget last year (when I first discovered it) we are known for our love of simple gadgets like text messaging and twitter, this would have made a cool early adopter present, twitter is a bit passe – chumby is just another wifi widget now, like a digital photo frame with twitter on – actually that might be good if it was an A4 sized frame and touch screen – or that might be a kindle – which we also can’t get here – but if they sell it for 50 quid I’d probably buy one.
actually, you can get the kindle in great britain now that it’s using qualcomm’s gobi radio and they’ve got all the international network stuff worked out. it’s $99 which is around 50 pounds, isn’t it?
@Chumby User
The touch screen on mine works perfectly fine. Some of the customer made widgets are a bit hard to navigate. No problems with routers here.
Seriously this is a great uber alarm clock. It beat out my bose. I have three alarm in the morning, rain then WFMU and the third one turns it off for the day. HIGHLY customizable.