Chumby Gadget now available

Posted February 23, 2008 at 08:33 PM by Robert Nelson

Section: Gadgets / Other

The Chumby is now available for purchase. For those unfamiliar with this cool little gadget, the Chumby is a small open-source Linux-based device that features a 3.5-inch LCD screen, has two USB 2.0 ports, 64MB of SDRAM, and accelerometer, built-in speakers, Wi-Fi and is powered by a 350 Mhz ARM processor.

The Chumby basically allows you to stay connected and receive updates on just about any topic that you can think of. Thanks to an active developers community and wiki support page there are quite a bit of widgets available. With the Chumby you can stay updated with the weather, news, finance, your social networks, listen to internet radio, podcasts, play games, check your email and much much more.

The Chumby comes in your choice of pearl, latte and black and retails for $180.

Product [Chumby] Via [Wired Gadget Lab]