If your iPhone and your alarm clock made a baby, Chumby would be the result. Unless your iPhone is your alarm clock… then that wouldn’t make a lot of sense.

Chumby’s got a 3.5-inch touch screen and built-in WiFi, allowing it to do things regular alarm clocks can only dream of. Like:

• running more than 600 widgets (weather, sports scores, eBay auctions, news.. you name it)
• connecting to Internet radio stations (thousands available)
• displaying your photos (from Flickr, Facebook, etc.)
• two USB 2.0 ports
• stereo speakers
• leather case

Of course it also does a solid job of keeping track of time and waking you up.

All this can be yours for a one-time price of $179.95, including shipping. You just need to decide between latte (brown), basic black, or pearl (white).

Chumby says the Chumby Network and all of its widgets and services will be free for life, but that could mean the company’s life, since Internet appliances seem to have difficulty staying alive.

But unlike those older and doomed devices, the Chumby’s got a good price tag, solid feature set, and actually makes an already useful everyday device even more so.