(1) Check out the chumby’s beta “Control Panel.” If you have a chumby, you go to your My Chumby page and, in the lower right-hand corner of the page, you will see a (deliberately, for now) hidden drop-down menu, where you can select “Control Panel Beta.” After doing this and powering your chumby off and then on again, you will see that the chumby has some really great streaming Internet radio features and can also be a really compelling alarm clock, i.e., you can wake up to Tunisian club music from SHOUTcast and then know your local weather and traffic and maybe get a good laugh even before you get out of bed;

(2) Recognize that this is an unfinished, pre-release product. We will be launching publicly in a few weeks and with some great new features and content that will probably change your view of things;

(3) Then, if you still think that the chumby is a waste of money, please tell the world you think so :^)

Steve Tomlin
CEO
Chumby Industries, Inc.