Chumby grows up, dates Samsung
Chumby gets framed by Samsung.
(Credit: Chumby)
The cute little beanbag-encased, open-source Chumby (my review), an internet display device, is growing up through a partnership with Samsung. The original Chumby software makes the device into a good digital photo frame functionally, but the hardware is too small and bulky to compete with other dedicated frames. This partnership will get the Chumby software into more consumer-friendly hardware — eventually.
The Samsung product is a reference design, not a shipping item. I do hope we see Chumby-powered full-sized photo frames this year. The Chumby architecture makes it easy to upload photos to your device from a photo sharing site like Picasa Web or flicker, as all the work is done on a PC in a browser, and updates go to the display device over a home’s WiFi.
The Chumby platform can also deliver other widgets to a display device: Weather forecasts, RSS feeds, and so on.
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Chumby grows up, dates Samsung
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