CrunchPad

CrunchPad is a mobile touchscreen computer designed by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, with Fusion Garage doing the software and industrial design work by by David Yarnell and Greg Lalier from Dynacept.

The CrunchPad is a hardware prototyping initiative created by Michael Arrington, Louis Monier, and Singapore based design studio FusionGarage, that aims to build a low-cost Web Tablet. Initially in 2008, $200 was mentioned as the price-point goal. In the first half of 2009, $300 was mentioned as more likely. By the end of July 2009, news stories said the actual price when it ships in November 2009 would be about $400, putting it in potential competition with netbooks and low-end laptops.CrunchPad Fans is a news site about TechCrunch's upcoming CrunchPad.

The CrunchPad project was started in July 2008, initially aiming for a $200 tablet, and showed a first prototype (Prototype A) a month later.In the Beginning of 2009, working Prototype B was introduced based on a 12 inch LCD screen, a VIA Nano CPU, Ubuntu Linux and a custom Webkit-based browser. The device was rapidly-prototyped by Dynacept and a highly specialized version of the Ubuntu distribution was compiled by FusionGarage.After announcing Prototype B, there arose a desire for the tablet to come into production.

CrunchPad