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.
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.
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.
Here is the near-final industrial design for the CrunchPad:
demonstration of CrunchPad prototype B