Widgets

Pandora Web Radio Goodness Now Playing On Chumby

Everyone’s favorite music-genome-powered web radio service Pandora is now officially available on everyone’s favorite ambiguous-use plush-paneled Linux appliance, the Chumby. Fitting of their strategy to be on every hardware platform possible, Pandora can now provide soothing wakeup tunes (major key tonality, mild rhythmic syncopation, a good dose of acoustic guitar pickin’) via Chumby’s own alarm…

Verizon Launches Dashboard Flash-Based Mobile Storefront

Verizon has quietly gone live with their new Dashboard flash-based mobile storefront. So far, the app is only available on the LG Chocolate 3, but more phones are expected to be added by the end of the year. That would make it one of the largest implementations of Adobe’s flash in the US. The service…

Sony Japan Releases SDK For Bravia TV Apps

Sony became the latest to jump on the app trend bandwagon, but not with a product you’d automatically equate with downloading itty bitty widgets. The company has released an App development kit for its line of Bravia television sets. It expects people to create things like small multiplayer online games, weather and news data aggregators…

Intel’s Latest System-On-A-Chip is For Web Enabled TVs, Set-Top Boxes

Only a month or so after announcing intentions to dabble in the SoC game for embedded systems, Intel’s showing off its first iteration at the Intel Developers Forum. The CE 3100 (previously known as “Canmore” in Intel speak) combines HD video processing, “home theater quality” audio and 3D graphics with the internet connectedness to run…

CBS, MTV and MySpace Get Chummy With Chumby Network

While chumby has been available in beta for a while and we had our hands on the final version last week, today is the official public launch of the little Wi-Fi beanbag, as well as the Chumby Network, with big media content partners CBS, MTV, The Weather Channel, AOL Shoutcast, Scripps and more. The network…

Hands On chumby Wi-Fi Widget Beanbag (Cuddly in More Ways Than One)

After about an hour of playtime with the final version of the squishable $180 Wi-Fi widget ball chumby, I want one on my desk. Is it essential gadgetry? No. It’s not meant to be. Until you’re addicted to it. If you’re not familiar with the basic premise, chumby is a Wi-Fi gadget with a touchscreen…

Sharp Aquos Net: Widget TV

Sharp’s new Aquos Net brings (approved) widgets to your television. Our shaky video walks you though the experience. It’s not the speediest interface at the moment, but we’re really digging the different panel size options. You can leave the widgets in the corner, blow them up to half-screen size, or go to the sites ala…

Now Playing: TiVo2Go For Series 3 on a Mac for Free

The most recent update to Now Playing widget for OS X gives it the ability to download shows from your TiVo Series 3 and have it automatically decode for playing using TiVoDecode. This looks to be the free alternative to Roxio programs for watching TiVo2Go on your Mac. Although it’s missing functionality to burn discs…

The huggable Chumby Wi-Fi widget box is on sale for $180 in latte, black or pearl. But it’s still just for the hardest core: “The Chumby Store is currently only accessible to customers by invitation only.” [Chumby] https://gizmodo.com/chumby-unboxing-video-looks-chumbalicious-288568

Apple Dashboard Widgets on Nokia S60 Phones

With Nokia’s Web Run Time, due to be released in the next S60 operating system update, Nokia users can actually run slightly modified Apple Dashboard widgets right on their phone. The basis of this is that Nokia’s widgets and Dashboard widgets both use the WebKit browser engine (the same fact that also allowed Nokias to…

iPhone Kinda Gets OS X Dashboard Widgets

Erica over at TUAW just managed to get OS X Dashboard widgets working on the iPhone. We say kinda, because some apps (Weather, ESPN and Calendar) work fine, but others work horribly. To get it on your iPhone, you have to upload the Widgets.app, copy over a support folder from your Mac, and then copy…

Chumby Unboxing Video, Looks Chumbalicious

Remember the Chumby? It’s that kinda fat, always connected Widget browser. A few production models have gone out to the public, and it’s looking pretty good if you fall for their marketing, referring to it as "cute" instead of "obese." (Note: I think it’s ugly in black but I dig the leather grips.) This video…

Tantalizing Hints at New iPhone Capabilities Uncovered in Firmware

The guys at iPhoneology didn’t have anything better to do this weekend, so they were poking around in the iPhone’s firmware, and look what they found: four applications they hadn’t seen before, including one for mobile radio that’s not even supported in the iPhone’s hardware. They also found a few widgets that aren’t on the…

Oregon Scientific Weather Hub Predicts the Weathery Future

This little device from the weather junkies at Oregon Scientific is like bringing a desktop widget to real life. It has two circular displays that will display the current temperature and the upcoming temperature. It does the magic future-predicting with an internal barometer. I wish it included Wi-Fi or something to more accurately predict the…

Touchscreen Smart Mirror: Widgets in the Mirror

A team of students at the University of Waterloo, lead by William Lam (no relation to our Brian Lam), have designed a touchscreen Smart Mirror. Widgets can be placed on the mirror and it can also play music, video and more. Check out the video above and see for yourself. –Travis Hudson

Koloroo Come Up With a Pair of Widgets for Your iPod

Two gadgets for your iPod from newbies Koloroo. The $4.99 TipKalc can work out how much you need to leave for that nice waiter who spat in your soup after you complained it was cold (my tip for that is a fat zero and a slap in the chops). It can also calculate how to…

A Closer Look at Asus’s Sideshow-Capable Motherboards

We knew that Asus was releasing Vista-optimized motherboards, but we didn’t know they were going to bundle an actual SideShow device with it. https://gizmodo.com/asuss-vista-optimized-motherboards-231547 TechReport takes a closer look at this MP3 player-sized device, which has a D-pad front buttons and top buttons, as well as a kickstand so you can prop it up on…

WidgetStation Update: Info, When and Where You Want It

This little palm-sized WidgetStation that we reported on two months ago is for real, and was demonstrated at CES. It shows the widget of your choice on its dual screens, and accesses its info via Wi-Fi, Ethernet or a USB connection to your PC or Mac. The left screen features pure data on its monochrome…

Alltel Celltop Widgets Hands-On

Apple’s not the only one with a widget-capable phone. Alltel’s Samsung u520 has celltop built-in, which means you can get weather, stocks, and sports scores with only a few clicks. The response time is pretty decent for a cellphone, and the graphics are actually quite good. As you can see in the video, each cell…

The iPhone: Widgets

10:25: Only two widgets available now, Weather and Stocks. 10:26: Ho ho, he’s checking Apple’s stocks live, and it’s going up.