LinkNotes: CrunchPad -- Touch Screen Web Tablet

Blogger To Release Touch Screen Web Tablet

As a blogger for TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has often pined for a simple, cheap tablet that's made primarily for browsing the Web. He's now putting his money where his mouth is, and has formed a company to sell a Web tablet called the CrunchPad.

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple, Acer and…Arrington?

Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality.

clipped from www.techcrunch.com

CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype

Compare the images below to the first prototype and you can see how far we’ve come. If you’re interested, here’s Prototype B. Pictures of Prototype C, which is the device we’re actually demo’ing to people now, are here.