Tag Archives: Chumby

Chumby lives on as an alarm clock, new owner hopes widget service can be restored

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Chumby Industries may have folded back in April 2012, but the community has been keeping the widget platform up and running ever since. Last month, news came that funding for the project had all but dried up, and the 40,000 de…


Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely

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“The site is closed temporarily.” Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it’s plastered across Chumby’s own webstore. For over two days now, that’s the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as…


Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely

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“The site is closed temporarily.” Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it’s plastered across Chumby’s own webstore. For over two days now, that’s the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as…


Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely

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“The site is closed temporarily.” Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it’s plastered across Chumby’s own webstore. For over two days now, that’s the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as…


Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely

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“The site is closed temporarily.” Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it’s plastered across Chumby’s own webstore. For over two days now, that’s the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as…


Chumby halts hardware sales, long-term support looking mighty unlikely

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“The site is closed temporarily.” Never a good sign, indeed, and particularly not when it’s plastered across Chumby’s own webstore. For over two days now, that’s the message given to anyone attempting to buy hardware from the company, and it looks as…


Bunnie Huang builds open-source geiger counter to help Japanese civilians

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Chumby co-creator Andrew “Bunnie” Huang was so moved by the Japanese Earthquake and Fukushima meltdown that he felt compelled to help out. Teaming up with nonprofit organization Safecast, he started work on a radiation monitor that was suitable for e…


IRL: Chumby 8, LaCie Rugged Triple USB 3.0 and a duo of Nikkor lenses

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Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. You know what we’re sick of talking about? (Okay, sick is a str…


Sony dashes Dash development: is Bieber’s favorite tablet on the way out?

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The towering cultural colossus that is Justin Bieber giveth, yet he must also taketh away. Merely days after appearing as the pitchman for dancing crotch-speaker robot Tosy mRobo, the last tech-product he was tasked with selling might have been quiet…


Archos 35 home connect hands-on

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Though we didn’t have the Archos 35 home connect to wake us up personally during CES, we had a chance to get hands-on with the Android-based alarm clock on the floor and it did not disappoint. The Archos 35 home connect is the company’s entrance int…