[aklug] Re: Opinions?

From: Larry Collier <larry@medease.com>
Date: Thu May 15 2008 - 16:24:36 AKDT

Accelerometer recognizes when you whack it so it can stop bugging you -- for a
while anyway.

If they lowered the price to 50-60 dollar range I'd buy one just so I can
program multiple alarms for myself. Anyone who has problems getting moving
in the morning could use that. Dedicate one of the usbs to a standard
keyboard? The sight also mentions "virtual chumbys" -- do they run on my
desktop screen?

Larry

On Thursday 15 May 2008 15:36:39 Aaron A. wrote:
> I've often said that the average user doesn't need much computing power.
> If all they're doing is writing e-mails and buying stuff online, they could
> get by with a super-bare-bones computer and a lightweight OS that points
> the user to his/her frequently-used applications. If not for its horrible
> interface and /optional/ keyboard, the WebTV concept might have actually
> worked out. chumby* seems to be the latest incarnation of that concept.
> Be nice if it had a keyboard, though; even a Chiclet-sized pop-out keyboard
> would be helpful for returning messages. That, I think, would be a great
> selling point for social networking addicts.
>
> I have to wonder, though, why chumby's standard features include an
> accelerometer. Do they expect people to use chumby as a weapon?
> [http://store.chumby.com/ , under "chumby specs"]
>
> -- A.
> * All lowercase branding? That's almost as played-out as corporations
> who don't put any SpacesInTheirName.
>
> barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Anyone have opinions on this thing?
> http://www.chumby.com/
>
>
> Mike B.
>
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