[PLUG] Infocast: Linux on the shelves at Best Buy

[Aaron Burt]

OK, speaking of hackable ARM-based Linux devices, there's a nifty thing on
the shelves at Best Buy, of all places:
http://www.slashgear.com/insignia-infocast-chumby-powered-display-gets-hack-instructions-2290927/

It's a Chumby* with an 8" screen, available from a local retailer.

So you get something that will play net-radio, act as a jukebox (2GB uSD
storage, or use your media server), show weather/news/RSS/Twitter, run free
Chumby apps, or whatever apps you feel like coding for it, and when you get
tired of all that, it'll act like an Internet-enabled photo-frame.

If it breaks, you take it back to your local Best Buy.

Or you just hack it using the built-in hacker features and expansion ports
Bunnie designed into it.

I can't wait to SSH into my photo-frame.

* Chumby is a built-to-be-hacked Linux device designed by Bunnie Huang.
  Like the iPhone and Android, people make apps for it, but it's been
  around for half a year longer than the iPhone.