TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I’m tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts - businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings things. Soon there will be a way to create and “print” objects in 3D on a mass scale, and the first of these is starting to arrive. Netherlands-based [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I’m tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Custom fabrication can be fun. Especially when it gets three-dimensional. Enter, Shapeways , a new startup molded by Philips Incubator Project and currently tagged as a private beta service. (We have lots of invites to share. Click the link at the bottom.) For inspired originalists, there’s really nothing one can buy that satisfies that ever-present craving for uniqueness. This drives many to paddle...
CyberNet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TechCrunch just announced some pretty big plans to design their own web tablet device and their goal is to keep it around two-hundred bucks. It’s quite an interesting idea and could be perfect for those who tend to use web-only services and don’t need anything other than a web browser to be productive. We’re talking [...]
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
There's much speculation about a refresh on Apple's laptop line, a permanent thread in tech bloggerland, we've been waiting for it for a long time. Here's my bet. The MacBook Air was the leading edge of a new form factor at Apple, the low-end of a new lineup of super-thin laptops. In the next round you'll see one with two or three USB ports and a removable battery as well as a tablet version. Both...
IT|Redux (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Earlier this week, Michael Arrington created quite a flurry of interest by announcing the TechCrunch Web Tablet . Of course, any resemblance with the Redux Model 1 is purely coincidental. Nevertheless, Michael and his team might learn a couple of things from our own experiment , started ten months ago. [ Continue... ]
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Where are the nonE Ink machines for reading E? That’s a common refrain from many TeleBlog readers. Now TechCrunch is talking about a $200 Web tablet, apparently LCD-based. And guess what the desired ETA is for the prototype? Just two months from now. Built around Firefox The real app will be Firefox, but wouldn’t it [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Kluster, the crowd sourcing startup that launched earlier this year, has introduced support for new private Klusters designed to help groups manage decision making. Each Kluster offers users a chance to ask a group a question (say, “What features should go into the new TechCrunch tablet'”). Each participating member is then categorized from the administrator [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
If there was ever a great indication of the power that is/will be open source hardware, this is it. TechCrunch announcing they want to build their own Web tablet device. Just awesome. A couple of years ago, Jeremy Toeman (our marketing guy) and I were sitting around thinking about the future and Jeremy actually [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TCUK’s Mike Butcher writes: So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts - businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings things. Soon there will be a way to create and “print” objects in 3D on a mass scale, and the first of these is starting [...]
Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Arrington has a brilliant idea - an Internet Tablet that’s thin like the MacBook Air and sports a touch sensitive screen like the iPhone or iPod Touch. Good luck. XOXO
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Techcrunch announced they're going to build a web tablet device & part II - Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware. The iPhone is nice but too small, and most laptops are over-powered for the task. With applications...
geeksugar (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
TechCrunch IT has just kicked off a design project where they are hoping to build a basic web tablet machine for only a few hundred dollars. — TechCrunch Qik video streaming, which allows you to stream live video from your cell phone to the web is now open in public beta . — Gizmodo Microsoft rolls out a " Vista isn’t so bad, see ?" ad campaign which is aimed at defending Vista and Microsoft in general....
jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Of all the cockamamie ideas I've ever heard, this one takes the cake. The TechCrunch folks are spec'ing out a small "web tablet" that... get this... runs a minimal operating system and uses the web browser for most of its functionality! Oh, I fell off my chair laughing about that...
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This is interesting. TechCrunch have started a project where they want to build an open-source based web tablet, running Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux distribution, with just a touch screen interface. Add a power button, and a $200 price tag, and you’ve got the essentials of this interesting project. There’s great interest [...]
