We mentioned the Chumby in a blog post last week. Today, Forbes posted an article covering the Chumby, the Ambient Web, and digital frames. The author describes the Chumby and similar devices, as extremely useful but mentions the difficulty new products like this may encounter in attracting a niche of users.
Like any new technology, there is unlimited potential for various uses of the Chumby-WiFi frame, RSS newsreader, music player-but we have yet to see just how new wireless enabled gizmos like the Chumby will be widely adopted by the mass market.
Read the full article from Forbes HERE. 
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A Chumby has no keyboard. A Chumby has no mouse. To program Chumby, you have to use the touchscreen.
Chumby is soft and cuddly, and it does many of the things a larger computer can do: news, weather, sports, email, music, RSS feeds, pictures. . . .you can even charge your iPod with Chumby, and listen
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Oh look, it’s CHUMBY!
What is a Chumby, you ask? A Chumby is a Wifi-enabled soft stuffed animal, alarm clock, picture frame thing that you can hug all night while it displays picture after picture, gives you the weather, the daily news, and sings to you. Your kids can play with it. It
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CNET published a review of the Chumby yesterday. An excerpt is below. To read the full review, please visit CNET’s website.
The Chumby ($179) is a plush, softball-size Linux computer that includes a 3.5-inch touch screen, speakers, and Wi-Fi. An adorable little machine for hosting music, photos, videos, and Web applications, the Chumby distinguishes
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