Long before the Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub, or even the iPad, there was the Chumby.
Released in 2008, the $200 Chumby was a strange little Linux computer wrapped in soft leather with a 3.5-inch, 320×240-pixel touchscreen, stereo speakers, Wi-Fi, and an accelerometer. It sat on your bedside table or kitchen counter and displayed clocks, weather, RS…
