I first saw the chumby on Wired.com's review of gadgetry that's off the beaten path. With its amazing range of useful stuff, radio, alarm clock, media player, internet thingy and probably the coolest internet ready device ever.

First, some tech specs:
64 MB NAND FLASH ROM
320x240 3.5" TFT LCD with LED backlighting
Touchscreen input
Stereo 2W speakers with hardware mute
Headphone output with headphone presence detection
Microphone input with programmable AGC
Squeeze sensor
3-axis Accelerometer (+/-2g range @ 12 bits resolution)
Three USB 2.0 full-speed
802.11g connectivity

Put chumby by your bed and wake up to your music, either the radio or internet music like shoutcast. Get your RSS info ready, with all the information you need before you even get out of bed.

There's way too much stuff to talk about the Chumby, because it's got a loyal following of modders, hackers and programmers. Yes!! there are widgets and a lot of ways to personalize and modify your Chumby.

It's a strange name, but like TiVo, it's one of those things that you never knew you needed until you got one.

It's a cheap, little, hackable photo-frame-form-factor device. Seems like it might make a nice alarm clock. (via caskey)

"This may be the final nail in the coffin of the morning paper. The Chumby combines the functions of an alarm clock with a full suite of widgets that streams everything from sports, stocks, news, weather, youtube, twitter, etc. Connect to your wireless internet and you might not even need to get out of bed in the morning to catch up on the world. It's even fist-sized so you can easily throw it for waking you up." (via Chumby)

The Chumby is a fun interactive media player that pulls rich online content into a fresh, cute console. This wireless device allows you to access news, blogs, weather, video, music, podcasts, etc. It has 800+ widgets and growing.

The Chumby is a fun interactive media player that pulls rich online content into a fresh, cute console. This wireless device allows you to access news, blogs, weather, video, music, podcasts, etc. It has 800+ widgets and growing.

chumby- i love it just for it's name but i would love to read the user manual, alarm clock, internet, weather, games, etc, etc wow, fun!

Dude, I want this! It's the best alarm clock ever as it hooks up to your Wifi and shows you up-to-the moment traffic, the day's weather, news, your horoscope and sports scores. You can even wake up to Internet radio!

Perfect hackable bedside device for those that are tethered to the internet.