This is more about consumery stuff than business but I do believe there could be application. Before disappearing to Boston I stumbled across Chumby. It’s a wireless device that has a touch screen through which you can access information services via widgets you allocate to your Chumby via a computer terminal. The range of material they can deliver is astonishing, including news services, stock indices, video, music, photos. For the person who is techno-allergic, like my good lady Jude, it’s the dieal way to interact with the digital world.
Among other things, I can set the Chumby to show my Flickrstream, Twitterstream and Friendfeed. That allows me to deliver content when I’m away. What I really want are widgets for my Blip.tv, Phreadz.com, Seesmic and Kyte.tv accounts. Since I have a USB camera, it would allow me to create videos to which Jude could respond while I am traveling. There wouldn’t be any sound because Chumby doesn’t have a direct upload facility but hey. It’s a start.
Chumby doesn’t yet deliver to EU but I was fortunate enough to have a friend who was kind enough to take delivery on my behalf.
