I'm Chumby, dammit.
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Chumby is a small, wifi enabled, touch screen information device. When you take it out of the box and plug it in it is essentially a glorified alarm clock. But when you take a moment and register your particular Chumby at their website, it can become just about anything you like.
Forget the usual boys' club exclusivity bullshit of handing out devices to the people least able to really give them the kind of real-world shakeout they'd need. You know, the meritocracy. This Chumby thing sounded pretty interesting when I read this first paragraph, especially the small part. I was envisioning something I could put in a pocket. Then I see this picture of people playing with their new toys (oh, sorry, having a "Chumby hack session", which is something I believe they're developing new pharma to cure):
That thing is HUGE. Then I read in the comments that this is supposed to be...wait for it...an ALARM CLOCK replacement. Or as we call it now a "digital lifestyle device" (also from the comments.) Yeah, I NEED an alarm clock that shows Google News, because I might actually go 2 seconds between waking up and grabbing the laptop without being connected.
Bubble 2.0 is upon us, folks.
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Technorati Tags: geek, stupid, foofah, webble+2.0