A little over a year ago we received an email from a company working on ‘an open source consumer electronics device’. About a month later we got a package in the mail containing something that looked like a bean bag with an LCD screen attached to one side and a little label reading ‘prototype’. It was a Chumby. It ran Flash Lite and it was cute.

Not long after it arrived we had a version of our flashcan ecards system up and running on the Chumby. By wiring our flashcan system into Chumby.com visitors can create ecards and then ‘push’ them down to a friend’s Chumby. The Chumby is now showing up in more and more places (check out David Pogue recent piece called Please, do squeeze the Chumby).