Sure, we had a barney about the OpenMoko and other devices the other day but one thing that’s cool about Linux is the way that it proliferates in embedded devices.
I’m quietly lusting after a Chumby as an internet appliance for the house. Though I’d not be developing for it, it’s the kind of device that I think my kids would use. I’ve been trying to find something that would give them a “limited” internet experience with a tactile approach. The fact they’ve all been able to use my iPhone to view pictures, movies and music shows the utility of it.
Chumby is a static counter-top device. A recent competitor to it might be the wizPy which suffers from an awful camelCase name. The selling point seems to be that it’s a mobile Linusx handheld that also seems to allow you to boot an x86 PC over USB and provide you with the same environment. That’s neat.