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What has a touchscreen, let's you be on Facebook and see the Weather Channel?

You maybe surprised to know that it's a tiny Linux computer without a keyboard but a touchscreen called It can play music from Pandora and also let you keep up with David Letterman's top 10 lists. Chumby works by connecting to the Chumby Network via WiFi. It plays widgets, which you select via a webpage on your computer. Once everything is setup which only takes about 10 minutes at the most, you just sit back and watch all the cool items it can display. Mine displays Flickr photos, Facebook updates, webcams from two different aquariums, Gizmodo, Engadget, Slashdot, Make magazine, and bunch more.

If you have a friend who has a Chumby you can send each widgets via my Chums.  Feel free to add me, my Chumby is starlightmedia

It's a lot of fun be sure to go to the Chumby website to get yours!

Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 01:16PM by Registered CommenterLaurence Koret in | CommentsPost a Comment

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