The product brief describes the Sunfury as a 7-inch touchscreen tablet, with 800×480 resolution. It’s going to be capable of booting from different operating systems off of a microSD card, and will have 802.11 b/g wireless networking and a 3G network option with support for multiple carriers. The device will also include built-in stereo speakers for audio playback.

In addition, the Sunfury is expected to offer optional video camera inputs, a 3-axis accelerometer and an expandable I/O option card. The CPU wasn’t specifically named, but will be available in 1.2 GHz and 800MHz versions, but from the looks of this press release, it’s a Marvell PXA168 processor. On-board memory is either 128 or 256MB of DDR SDRAM, but can be expanded through the microSD slot.Clearly, the Sunfury isn’t designed for heavy-duty computing tasks – rather, it’s going to be used for things like commercial signage, advertising and interactive art installations.

The Sunfury platform will run Chumby widget applications for everything from news and stock tickers to mini games, and other custom apps. It’ll also play video in MOV, H.264, AVI, MJPEG, MPEG-4 and MP4 formats, as well as allow viewing of YouTube and other web-based video content. Photo integration with Photobucket and other data sources on your network will let you use the tablet as a digital picture frame, and Chumby also has app support for sites like Pandora, Flickr and Facebook among others.

No word yet on if or when the Sunfury will make it to market, what it will sell for, or if it will only end up being OEM’d to other vendors (although there’s clearly some overlap with the new Chumby-powered Sony Dash). You can always check back on the Chumby website to see if and when they make an official announcement about Sunfury-powered products.

The FireNes site is in Spanish; here is a not-too-terrific English translation. All you need to know is this: go to FireNes, click on “Install” (“Instalar” if you’re on the Spanish page and are feeling fancy), then relaunch Firefox. Go to the Tools menu and click on FireNes. It will pull up a menu of any game. Right click on the game to edit options and learn which keys to use.

You’re lucky I even wrote this post considering I’ve spent the last 3 hours “researching” the subject matter. And by “researching” of course I mean re-mastering Q-Bert and amassing coins in Mario-land- because they have a bunch of retro games on there in addition to the NES favorites.

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The system can be programmed to display widget-like channels on your television, using a library of freely-available software. There’s even a built-in IR sensor so it can you can change widget “channels” with a remote control.

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Designed by engineer Robert Quattlebaum, the Ybox2 connects to your computer network using a built-in 10BaseT Ethernet port, and outputs video to your TV using a simple Composite video output (NTSC or PAL). The device is based on Uncommon Projects’ original Ybox platform, which first surfaced back in 2006 (shown in the video above).

The entire Ybox2 can be built for about $50, less than half of what the original version cost to build. At the heart of the system is a programmable Propeller 32-bit multi-processor, and the latest version improves on the original by adding an internal speaker as well as a multi-color status LED.

You can find more details, including the board schematics, parts list, and source code over on deep darc.

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ZenZui’s differentiator is its unique “zooming” user interface which lets you quickly maneuver from one application or website to another. The interface features a grid of customizable “tiles” which provide links directly to the users areas of interest. Once a tile is chosen, the selected content immediately fills the mobile devices screen.

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