Chumby
I would like to have this thing, indeed. It is cute, handsome, perfect, …, you can change its cover…. it can be your alarm… with a nice mp3 ogg… it can display slashdot or digg entries or google calendar events.. it can show photos from flicker… etc.
And it is open! You can extend or change it functionality. I mean no h4cking.. you are supported to do so :) Btw. it runs on Linux :) (I do not know more details.) The company behind it chosen a different strategy then big players in this segment: Philips, Apple or mobile phone producers as Nokia.
Unfortunately, you cannot buy it now — should be available in spring 2007 (although on same pages you can find information about beginning of this year). I keep my fingers crossed :)
A few links:
http://www.chumby.com/corporate
http://chumby.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33515138@N00/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/27/chumby-devices-handed-out-at-foo/
http://crunchgear.com/2006/08/27/techcrunch-gets-chumy-with-chumby/
http://www.christine.net/2006/08/announcing_the_.html
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