Do you chumby?
I just got myself one of these Chumby's a week ago... It hasn't arrived yet but I am shamefully anxious to get it. If I think it is useful to even non-techy's I might have a few gifts...
If you don't know what a Chumby is, it's basically
- a widget-driven touch-screen photo-phrame, or....
- maybe it's an internet-based laptop in an alarm clock, or....
- maybe it's an alarm clock that gets information from the internet
What it does is cycles through widgets that you put in channels... So you select a channel and those widgets will rotate on your Chumby.
Whatever it is, it looks like a fun device to use. I've already played with some of the widgets on their "virtual chumby" which you get in your browser. Some of the widgets I like:
- The Human Clock - a clock that changes pictures ever minute and shows a user-submitted picture of the time
- CBSSports.com - a scoreboard widget (which right now is painfully reminding me of the Giants loss to Denver on Thursday)
- Weather by The Weather Channel - something I would want to look at when I get up in the morning
- Umbrella - you give it a zip code, it tells you if you need an umbrella. Brilliant.
- Twitter - because, well, I like Twitter
- Facebook News Feed - self-explanatory, if it works
- Stock Quotes - because I need to know how much money I am losing
- GMail Viewer - I love the idea of getting my latest personal email in a widget when I get up or before I go to bed
- New York Times - Top Stories - Good news widget
- Zoltar and the Magic Carpet Ride - a little addictive game for your Chumby
- Word of the Day - looks broken but if it is I think I might just have to code up my own
- Tea Timer - cute widget and great concept, tells you how long to steep, how many possible re-steeps, and a timer
There are a bunch more out there too, they claim 1500 but extendible by anyone. Sounds like fun to me!
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