Whoa! What is that weird eyeball thing? That strange eyeball is a Chumby widget. A what, you're probably asking? A Chumby is a piece of soft technology that brings us a little closer to some of the services that the web has to offer. The little guy has a touch screen, speakers, a wifi connection, it can respond to physical interaction (such as squeezing the corner) and most importantly it has an open and flexible interface that anyone can write widgets for. Widgets are written in Flash and deployed through the Chumby server. If you watch, the image to the left it will change and another widget will take its place. The widgets can be grouped into channels which are also configurable through the Chumby web interface. I haven't gotten my hands on one yet but I've been looking forward to building and testing my own widgets. I'll be putting together a few ideas of my own over the next few days so check back soon to see what I come up with! In the mean time, if you have ideas for what you'd like to see on a Chumby send them in!

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