About Chumby Industries
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Chumby Industries makes, sells, and licenses the chumby®, a compact device that connects via a wireless internet connection and gives people a fun, hassle-free way to enjoy what they want most out of the Internet, always on and simply at a glance.
Chumby Industries also runs the Chumby® Network, a rapidly expanding open pipeline of user created and commercial widget applications for chumby owners to enjoy and share with each other. Chumby Industries works with leading media partners, including CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel, AOL and Scripps Networks and other top consumer brands to provide unique content for the Chumby Network.
The Chumby Network constantly broadcasts to chumby devices, and free Web-based "virtual chumbys," your favorite parts of the Internet, offering the latest news, weather and entertainment as well as the ability to share photos, widgets, e-cards and more with family and friends.
Chumby Industries provides an open platform, enabling the chumby to be constantly updated by any user, developer, media company or content creator to enhance and improve the Chumby experience.
The chumby device is currently available in the U.S. at www.chumby.com for $179.95.
What the heck is a chumby?
Your chumby uses your existing wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) connection to keep you constantly in touch with your "Internet life," perhaps from the moment it wakes you up in the morning. Compact in size and wrapped in an Italian leather exterior of black, latte or pearl, you plug your chumby into any power outlet, and it finds your Wi-Fi connection and streams your own selected channels of personalized practical information and fresh entertainment. At launch, users will be able to customize their chumby with the latest news, weather and entertainment as well as eBay auction updates, photos, music and more, with additional content from the Chumby Network added regularly.
A chumby owner is someone living a media-rich, always connected life as well as anyone seeking an easy way to listen to music, share digital photos with friends and family and easily skim news, weather and a variety of entertaining Web content that they care most about. Users can also share widgets and send ecards to other chumbys.
chumbys — addicting and fun to use — offer robust features including:
- Free access to the Chumby Network, which delivers a steady stream of new content, sponsored content and enhanced capabilities free of charge to users
- Personalized wake-up experience: programmed wake-up to any of the thousands of audio sources available on the chumby
- Fun: games, humor, e-greetings, gossip, cool entertainment content
- Photo sharing through top photo-sharing sites such as MySpace, flickr, Facebook and Photobucket
- Constant updates from top Internet sites
- Monitoring: auction updates, on-going searches, such as Craigslist, Google and friend status updates from MySpace, Twitter and Facebook
Wake up to your Internet life
Whether you decide to place your chumby on your nightstand, bathroom counter, office cubicle, coffee table, in the kitchen, or out on the patio, you are only a few simple steps away from enjoying your rich Internet life at a glance without having to log on, browse or interrupt your daily routine.
- Take your chumby out of its box, plug it in, and your chumby will immediately search for your wireless network.
- Log onto your computer and go to www.chumby.com to create a personalized channel of "widgets," the bite-sized applications that run on a chumby.
- Watch constantly updated info, or use interactive widgets that take advantage of chumby's touch screen or motion sensor.
- Enjoy and become a "chumbassador" and the envy of all your friends.
Technical Specifications
- Wi-Fi connectivity
- Access to the free Chumby Network
- 3.5" LCD color touchscreen
- Two external USB 2.0 full-speed ports
- 350 MHz ARM processor
- 64 MB SDRAM
- 64 MB NAND flash ROM
- Stereo 2W speakers
- Headphone output
- Squeeze sensor
- Accelerometer (motion sensor)
- Italian leather casing
- AC adapter included
- Dimensions: 5 1/2" wide, 4 1/4" tall, 3 1/4" deep at the base, and 2 1/4" deep at the top
- Currently available in black, latte and pearl colors
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Investors: |
Avalon Ventures |
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Content Partners: |
CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel, AOL/SHOUTcast and Scripps Networks/The Food Channel |
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Company Contact: |
Chumby Industries, Inc. |
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Media Contact: |
Megan Kellett |
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