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islami sohbet — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:45:30 -0000

I bought a Chumby for my wife to use as an alarm clock/weather/Google headlines reporter and was delighted at being able to turn on sshd and ssh in from my Linux machine at home. I teach an Intro to UNIX class and Chumby will DEFINITELY be on the topic list in the Spring. I persuaded out Chief Lab Tech to buy one for the college so I won't have to bring in my wife's Chumby for demo purposes.
Congratulations!
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beavis1989 — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:45:05 -0000

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Betsson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:02:19 -0000

Any more news? I'm looking for a bit information about Chumby.

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seabrook — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:16:28 -0000

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oobeeDude — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:47:30 -0000

If you're looking for something much cheaper and simpler, you might be in luck in a few months:

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Email me if you'd like to get on the beta test list: oobee (-at-) oobeeData.com

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Andrew Tobin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:59:41 -0000

I'm in the same situation - just waiting for international release so I can buy one!!

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intruders.tv — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:17:29 -0000

You can also see some of the Chumby internals in the following interview with the founders - http://uk.intruders.tv/Andrew-bunnie-Huang-and-...

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Ken R — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:14:33 -0000

The Qube was too damn popular too damn quick, and easy-to-admin Linux Servers were rolling out the door too fast.
Sun EOL as it was competition to its own line, and, didn't a certain large company give them a big infusion of cash behind-the-scenes, while publicly Scott McNealy was bad-mouthing said company?

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william — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:01:02 -0000

How long did it take you guys to receive your Chumby? After reading Dave's post about his, I ordered one myself :)

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Noel — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:21:54 -0000

If you really want to geek out on Chumby, you should check out Bunnie's Blog:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/

It covers the the production of the Chumby, including videos of the factories in China to studying manufacturing defects in returned units.

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John Furrier — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:12:27 -0000

Steve,
I really like you're chumby product

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Nancy White — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:56:38 -0000

I love my Chumby - chocochumby, and you remined me I've woefully ignored her these past 10 days of meetings. My updates are downloading

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Gregg — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:42:42 -0000

Just two question? What is it for? Why would I buy it? After reading your short review and watching the video I still can't answer those two questions?

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Cliff Gerrish — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:02:07 -0000

Hey how about a Chumby without leather. I'm sitting here talking to a vegetarian who might consider one without leather products.

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KevinCTofel — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:54:06 -0000

Hmm... I was on the initial list for Chumbys and got my notification of availability but held off. After getting a first hand view via the Dave-Cam, I'm thinking I should pull the trigger. I'm not much of a programmer, which is why I had second thoughts, but... thanks for the quickie vid!

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Katherine Druckman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:21:21 -0000

I am in love. I must have one.

-Katherine

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phil jones — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:11:23 -0000

Yeah, and Brazil ! We're getting impatient down here .. especially as exchange rates currently make buying stuff in dollars attractive ;-)

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fredwilson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:50:35 -0000

dave

Chumby is great. i am a big fan of what they are doing. i think that hardware that can be "mashed up", hacked around with, and such is a great thing. i am hoping that companies like Chumby and Bug Labs will shake things up and show people that opening up devices is a good thing.

fred

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Frank Arrigo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:50:30 -0000

i too love my chumby. i called him LIttleFrankie

i explain how cool it is to people and they just stare at me in disbelief.

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rvanderblom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:00:37 -0000

when are u anticipating delivering to Europe?

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SteveTomlin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:47:04 -0000

As CEO and one of the founders of Chumby (and, yes, Susan Kare is another -- our founders/employees are listed on our site by chronological order of involvement), I wanted to weigh in. First off, delighted to hear you like your chumby -- and even more delighted that, unlike some others, you correctly understand it more as a "vector" than as a "finished product." Chumby is not finished yet. For example we're adding streaming Internet radio and better alarm/event capabilities and will be sending these new feature in a free, over-the-air software update to everyone's chumby. The point is that the chumby will *never* be finished -- that's what we hope makes us an exciting and a new direction for the consumer electronics industry -- we're furiously adding features and capabilities and, now, so is our developer community. We've tried to open it up as much as we can to allow the chumby to be the Firefox of electronics, where the community keeps making it better based upon the community's needs. But we will be out of pre-release, where we are today, and into general release and more ready for prime time in early '08.

BTW, Dave, maybe you didn't notice, unsurprisingly because it's currently sort of hidden functionality, that on most picture-based widgets, including flickr, you can slide pictures forward and back with your finger (the swipe); and with RSS widgets you can swipe up and down to go forward and back in reading a particular post in a feed.

Chumby-on. Again I appreciate the post and am following the comments.

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Alistair — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:40:12 -0000

I wanna get one and try to install a Webot player on it. Having a Chumby that could remotely access all my music and pictures across all my machines would be amazing! Good writeup; thanks.

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danielha — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:22:37 -0000

And it's awesome that they have Susan on their team. She has the most amazing track record...

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rvanderblom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:14:27 -0000

Shame indeed we can't get them overhere in Europe, got a nabaztag / tag which is the successor of the nabaztag, and i like that device unfortunately it hasn't got an LCD screen.

Can the chymby read RFID tags? I haven't got it working yet on the nabaztag, but that functioanality looks promising

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dave — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:14:04 -0000

http://www.chumby.com/corporate/team