Posted by Christopher Dawson @ 9:48 pm ran a feature Friday on Michael Arrington, the brains behind TechCrunch. While not the most popular guy in the blogosphere, Arrington is well-respected in many business circles. As a result, when he announced that he was creating a new hardware company to crank out web surfing tablets, a lot of folks took notice. The so-called “CrunchPad” just might be the 1:1 device that we’ve been looking for if prices can be kept low enough. According to the Slashdot post, ‘The case will be aluminum, which is more expensive than plastic but is sturdier and lets us shave a little more off the overall thickness of the device.’ The CrunchPad boots directly into the browser with a Linux-based operating system and a WebKit-based browser. I think we can all see where this might go in a classroom. Slate... [read full story]
