Chumby expanding concept to WiFi Tvs?

Posted March 31, 2008 at 10:20 PM by JG Mason

Section: Gadgets / Other, Household

You might recall my earlier post, the one that rather irked a Chumby employee about how I thought the device has yet to break stride.  I am still excited by the device and still cannot wait to see what they come up with next.  Turns out, we may not have to wait that long thanks to some substantial ($12.5 million) financing in Series B venture funding.

“We are pleased to receive this financing which will enable us to execute our vision and grow distribution of the Chumby Network,” said Stephen Tomlin, CEO and founder, Chumby Industries. “As the next step of our strategy, we will focus on establishing relationships to broaden distribution to other screen-based devices such as digital photo frames and LCD TVs.”

What?  LCD TVs?  Hmmm.  A WiFi TV with a simple OS for web browsing, checking Gmail or for cool widgets?  I am interested.  While I’d love to see Chumby 2.0 sooner than later, this design team is onto something and it will be great to see what this brings.

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