For the readers of this blog that follow chumby news, here’s a tidbit for you. Below is a YouTube video of chumby running on multiple platforms. A lot of people have the impression that chumby is all about the leather-bag device that I write about on this blog.

In actuality, since the company’s founding chumby has focused on the content and the services that a chumby device could provide; this is part of the reason why, for example, chumby still has only one hardware engineer (me). Growing the hardware product line internally is not core to chumby’s business. Rather, the long-term goal of chumby is to be a multi-platform technology that you can embed in any product; chumby’s hardware efforts simply provide a reference design to get the ecosystem bootstrapped.

At CES chumby demonstrated a picture frame reference design, but chumby actually has the ability to run on much more than just that. Below is a video demonstrating chumby running on several target platforms. None of the these except for the leather bag chumby are officially supported or available for retail as shown, but as you can see it’s relatively easy to hack the chumby client software onto many existing devices, and chumby does have some new home-grown hardware reference designs in different form factors available to hardware manufacturers that desire a full-custom solution.

(The video above is narrated by chumby’s VP of Bizdev, Steve Adler. It shouldn’t be private, as the draft post had it marked…the guys at the chumby office had to reshoot it a few times, so the post was held for a while.)

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