Dig it:
Introducing chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity gossip...whatever you choose. And a chumby can exchange photos and messages with your friends. Since it's always on, you'll never miss anything.
In other words, it's a real-life instant messenger. And it wants to be your friend.
(Rudy Rucker envisioned a very similar device in his Ware books; the earlier, chumby-like incarnations were called "wuvvees," if I remember correctly.)
(Hat tip: Sauceruney.)
Update: Rudy Rucker emails with the following clarification . . .
"My devices were called uvvies, singular uvvy. Also disccused in SAUCER WISDOM. The name is an analgoue of TV, it's from UV, for Universal Viewer.
"People often want to pronounce it Ooo-vee, but I mean it to sound
like uuuuuh-vee. lovey dovey with your uvvy."
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