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another long expected, hot gadget got its official release yesterday: the Nokia N810 internet tablet, successor to the N770&N800 series. the most fundamental change of course is the folding keyboard, which together with the mozilla-browser (including flash-support) should offer a better & more complete mobile web-experience than lets say the iPhone. that is, if you’re near a wifi-access point, since the N810 doesn’t feature GSM/UMTS connectivity. you may however use your bluetooth-paired phone as a modem. since Nokia’s tablet-series is linux-based, there are plenty of 3rd-party applications to choose from.

btw, TabletBlog is a recommended read for anyone interested in these sort of devices…

I’ve first written about chumby over a year ago, and now it’s finally available (although the store is currently invite-only for folks who have pre-registered, which as it happens I have ). chumby is a hackable gadget featuring WiFi, USB-ports, integrated speakers, squeeze- & acceleration-sensors and a 3.5″ LCD-display. users may choose from more than hundred software-widgets which turn a chumby into a YouTube-client, an RSS-reader, a calendar or a Facebook-/Flickr-photoframe. since the product is designed to be open for both software- & hardware-hacks, chumby seems to be the perfect device to waste some time with. and for USD 180,- & free shipping I’m really considering getting one of those…hmm. some things I’ld like to do with chumby:

• monitoring your web-servers’ uptime (a la twittermon)
• remote-control my squeezebox, using the chumby to browse the music/video-library (thinking of the Sonos-remote control)
• use it as a streaming audio-client for online radio or on-demand archives like play.fm

what would you use this gadget for? do you think it’s any good? opinions welcome!

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sorry for the very low output on this blog lately, very much going on jobwise. hold tight for some news during october, mainly a new version of phptube (I’m planning to include support for deleting files from youtube) and a relaunch of the gapingvoid facebook-app (suggestions welcome).

oh, and thx to Evan from Flock, who has sent over a very nice package of Flockstar-schwag. appreciated! you might wanna try out the current beta of the social browser or sign-up for the soon-to come 1.0 beta-release (more on Flock here).