This may well be my ultimate gadget crave for the month.  Chumby Industries have finally released a product that is soooo useful to tech and webaholics… like me.

The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web: news, photos, music, celebrity gossip, weather, box scores, blogs — using your wireless Internet connection. Always on, it shows — nonstop — what’s online that matters to you.

Chumby is like a clock radio (plus plus).  It’s the future’s version of it at least.  Thru WIFI it connects to the free Chumby Network on the internet to get the info available, and there are lots.  It’s manufacturer has made their code and hardware hackable with the intention of producing more widgets and attachments.

Useful features would be the ability to subscribe to podcasts and audio and video streams, news and weather… basically the info you’re sure to want at the start of a busy day.  My favorite is its ability to connect to internet radio and live streaming traffic cams or any available webcam online.  Oh, for the sport fans… yes, it is able to stream sports scores and game updates.

It is also capable to connect with RSS feeds, so that means monitoring your bids or sells on EBAY, Amazon and other RSS is possible!  Monitoring your friends flickr account pics?  no problemo with chumby!

There has been huge success over its sale debut.  Many have caught on the Chumby fever and soon enough, when there’s a enough demand in the user community, we’d see more improvements on this product.

www.geekbrief.tv has given it quite an exposure!  Check out episode 315.
 

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