christine.net — Favorite hardware hacker Bunnie Huang gave this year's FOO Campers a sneak peek of the latest in cool gadgets: the chumby. The chumby is a low-cost, wifi-enabled information delivery device that's so appealing you'll want to keep one close.Chumby's team of hardware hackers wanted this device to be fun and open, the anti-iPod...
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warmcatAug 27, 2006
Very cool ~$150 ARM-based wifi device that invites user hacking. Bunnie does it again!
rubberbandln6Aug 27, 2006
Wow, guess I must of missed it. In that case, sign me up for 2 then. I don't know how it's going to be $150 but if it is then that is incredible.
Closed AccountAug 27, 2006
Why in the hell would I waste money on this when my laptop (which is always near me) or even my Treo does the exact same thing? Oh, because it has a "cute" name?Also, I'm really tired of all these idiots who promote chicks and their websites or businesses or commentary just because they're semi-cute (or at the least, not ugly). How about using your brain rather than your tiny dick and separating the two? I'm so god damned tired of seeing GUYS with great content and great insight who are not given nearly the level of opportunities that females half as capable get, just because they have t**s and geeks/nerds are desparate enough to turn them into "celebrities".Take that stupid "rocketboom crap, for example. Only popular because of twelve year old boys going through puberty got chubs watching. The rest of us didn't get it and thought the content was just ho-hum.
Closed AccountAug 27, 2006
You plug a giant keyboard into it. And a mouse, I guess. So you might as well just be using a laptop. As for streaming music... gross. Do you really want to stream music out over a 85 cent speaker?Really, this has a long way to go before it's very useful.
Closed AccountAug 27, 2006
Please stop saying "chumbilical cord". That is giving me the creeps.*shudder*
hypersoarAug 27, 2006
Apparantly there are going to be many different styles available.
Closed AccountAug 27, 2006
USB and audio out?By the time you plug a keyboard or other USB device into it and jack it into some decent speakers, it isn't exactly a "cute little portable device" any more. May as well just be using your laptop.
geminitojanusAug 27, 2006
More likely you could plug in a flash drive and hide it inside of the pretty little case they supply.
kirk1978Aug 28, 2006
This is gonna be a big hype!I mean.. who wouldn't want to hack one of these, make it all fancy or do some crazy stuff and post their photo on the web!make it flash something when you got IM, when your download is complete, when someone comment on your blog, when u got email, when someone visit your domain, when someone ping your IP, when someone scan your ports.... whatever! it's linux based.. and it has a usb slot for your USB stick.. plug a 2G stick on it and you can make it fly!this is just way too cool i think!