The CrunchPad, a simple touch-screen computer for Web-browsing only, is nearing reality with a company formed to oversee its manufacture.
A dream product of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, the CrunchPad is designed to be "dead-simple," in Arrington’s words. With just a half gigabyte of RAM, a 4 GB solid state drive and no physical keyboard, the device isn’t capable of much besides running Firefox on Linux.
In addition, the CrunchPad will have a single button for powering on and off, and will include headphone jacks, one USB input, low-end speakers, a microphone and a Web cam. The idea is to sell it for cheap, possibly around $200.
The product, or at least the concept, has been known about for some time, but it’s getting traction now that CrunchPad, Inc., is taking shape. Arrington told the San Francisco Business Times that a prototype will be ready to show at the end of this month, with "big news" coming around the same time. As the head of a major technology blog, I’m assuming Arrington grasps what is actually major news and what is baseless hype.
Which raises an admittedly off-topic point: How will TechCrunch and its spin-off blogs treat a product created by one of its own? News stories are sure to mention who’s behind the product, but I don’t envy whoever’s assigned to review the CrunchPad down the line.
4 Comments
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP-0Nce5oTQ
Most popular headlines
Diablo 3 game fans hit with always-online DRM grief (4)
- Fri 18 May 20:04 by Seán
- Software
it appears that Blizzard underestimated the server capacity required to handle all the gamers, thus resulting in Battle.net servers being overloaded and taken offline at launch. As Diablo III requires the user to be logged in with an uninterrupted internet connection to play, most players were greeted with an "Error 37" on the day of launch, unable to play the game.
Microsoft invests in startup BitTorrent piracy-killer company (12)
- Mon 14 May 17:10 by Seán
- Piracy
A new Russian based startup company, Pirate Pay, claims to offer the entertainment industry a technology to kill BitTorrent based file sharing by attacking BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible to share affected files.
RunCore unveils InVincible SSD with smoking self-destruct (3)
- Thu 17 May 15:20 by Seán
- Solid State (ssd), Uncategorized
RunCore has launched its InVincible SSD line, claiming to provide the highest data security with its two physically attached buttons, coloured green & red, giving the user a choice of whether to wipe or physically destroy the SSD.
OCZ releases 7mm low-profile line-up of its Vertex 3 (3)
- Fri 18 May 18:32 by Seán
- Solid State (ssd)
OCZ is getting ready to launch its Vertex 3 LP series, which is a 7mm low profile version of its Vertex 3. This series is designed to fit in Ultrabooks and Tablets that have a 7mm bay height limition and will come in a capacity choice of 60GB, 120GB, 240GB and 480GB.
