{"id":38,"date":"2007-05-27T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:26:10","slug":"getting-chummy-with-chumby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Getting chummy with Chumby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chumby is the name of a small device that displays &#8220;web widgets.&#8221;  It connects wirelessly to the internet to display a rotation of user-selected content.  It&#8217;s still in the testing stages, but supposedly will be on sale this summer, and will cost less than $200.  But you can create your own &#8220;Virtual Chumby&#8221; now by establishing an account on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chumby.com\">www.chumby.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Virtual Chumby I created just a few minutes ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><embed width=\"352\" height=\"257\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" wmode=\"transparent\" name=\"virtualchumby\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chumby.com\/virtualchumby.swf\" FlashVars=\"_chumby_profile_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chumby.com%2Fxml%2Fprofiles%2FB128755C-0CBF-11DC-934C-0030488E34F8&amp;baseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chumby.com\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>There may be some aspects of Chumby that could be useful in my sabbatical project (to create a prototype &#8220;textbook in an iPod&#8221;).  The touchscreen interface and Flash playback is promising, although at the moment it doesn&#8217;t appear able to support streaming video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chumby is the name of a small device that displays &#8220;web widgets.&#8221; It connects wirelessly to the internet to display a rotation of user-selected content. It&#8217;s still in the testing stages, but supposedly will be on sale this summer, and will cost less than $200. But you can create your own &#8220;Virtual Chumby&#8221; now by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting chummy with Chumby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7,23],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}