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 to it at the same time!
Chumby is extremely popular with the MySpace and Facebook crowd. This is the basic age group that hangs charms off their cell phones, and now, they’re doing the same thing with their Chumbys.
This is a soft, huggable digital picture frame disguised as a stuffie! Young people are personalizing Chumby and making it their very own. Chumby even has a store, where people can buy accessories for their Chumby! There are over 600 Chumby widgets right now, with more every day. You can even get a Chumby t-shirt!
Basic Chumby is still very affordable: only $179.99.
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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. 
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 itself from the world of ultramobile PCs and portable video players with its deliberately simplified scope and approachable, durable design.
With its beanbag shape and soft exterior, the Chumby resembles a computer designed by Teddy Ruxpin. Measuring 5 inches wide by 4 inches tall by 3 inches deep, the Chumby feels like the perfect gadget to place under your arm and take around the house…
The biggest hurdle Chumby faces is its ambiguous purpose. We love that the Chumby can be used as an RSS reader, an Internet radio, an alarm clock, an iPod speaker dock, a photo frame, an IPTV, and countless other things–but it’s hard to decide exactly where it belongs in the house. Whatever use you find for the Chumby, its essential features can be divided into three basic camps: clock, audio, and widgets.
As it stands now, the Chumby isn’t the most practical device, but if you have a general love for the Web, digital music, and new technology, you’ll have no problem finding a fun use for the Chumby in your home.
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 can wake you up in the morning. You can email things to display on it from a thousand miles away. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and you should run out and buy one for each of your children RIGHT NOW.
They’re not very big (see picture for scale) and they’re not very expensive, either. A Chumby will run you around $200.00, and for a wireless digital photo frame/alarm clock/weather report/huggie thing, that’s not bad. There’s no monthly fee, either.
Chumby is soft and cozy and mashable and lovely to hug. Chumby will keep your loved ones close to you at all times by displaying their pictures whenever YOU say. Chumby will make sure you get to work or school on time. Chumby will tell you to dress warmly or to carry an umbrella. Chumby is an iPod boombox. Chumby does so many things, you’ll have to experiment for weeks to find them all! Or, you could go to the Chumby website and start clicking. Remember, though, you heard about it here first!
Make a Family Chumby Channel on FrameChannel, and give everybody in the family a Chumby and let the fun begin!
Chumby wants you to adopt him. He told me so.
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A Chumby has no keyboard. A Chumby has no mouse. To program Chumby, you have to use the touchscreen.
