Two years ago, just months before the iPad and long before Honeycomb, Sony announced it’s own tablet, the Sony Dash. Today it seems that the Sony is dashing its dreams of success for the Chumby OS tablet. A developer that has signed up to create apps for the Justin Bieber-backed Dash, an email was sent more »

The battle for smart alarm clocks is on with Archos new entry, the Android-based 35 Home Connect. Like Chumby, the internet connected companion device, the Archos offering is WiFi connected so radio streaming, alarms and apps bring a new level of functionality to these bedside gadgets. The Archos 35 Home Connect has an internal battery, more »

It’s funny: when you write about gadgets nearly every day, you become aware of just how many there are out there and how many you don’t have. When asked to write about what I’ve managed to buy, the list seems quite small. Thankfully, I have a Mrs. Mason to remind me just how many of more »

I was wrong. Back in 2008, I wasn’t particularly kind to Chumby’s first offering. Back then, the reviews all tip-toed around that idea that no one really needed it and the whole idea wasn’t ready for prime-time. Since then, the Chumby widget center has grown substantially and the company has released a follow up device, more »

Sony originally unveiled the Dash during CES and it is expected to be available in April at which time it will retail for $199. As far as what the Dash does, well, think Chumby — but for grown ups. In reality it will allow the user to do things like have access to the weather, more »

While we have a soft spot in our hearts for Chumby, Sony’s coming out with a competitor that, as our Editor Robert Nelson says, “a Chumby for grown-ups.” The Sony Dash, coming this April for a reasonable $199 will do many things Chumby set out to do, namely act as a connected clock radio and more »

The Chumby One has officially been released, and for those not following the Chumby related news, the One is the updated model, you know the one that takes the Chumby from a plush little bean bag looking device into a slightly more grown up looking model. In other words, the Chumby One is now sporting more »

Chumby may be working with Samsung and Sony, but it doesn’t look like they’re expanding their line up any time soon. The smallish Chumby booth had rows of picture frame like devices running the open Chumby operating system. These devices were shown because Chumby is fishing for partners.

These were reference designs for other manufacturers to buy things. When I arrived, one company was very curious about what the Chumby could do.

The Sony product that ran Chumby was a design study and was not necessarily a product yet. We’ll get you more information on the Sony/Chumby relationship soon.

You might recall my earlier post, the one that rather irked a Chumby employee about how I thought the device has yet to break stride. I am still excited by the device and still cannot wait to see what they come up with next. Turns out, we may not have to wait that long thanks to some substantial ($12.5 million) financing in Series B venture funding.