Ask HN: What happened to the TechCrunch Web Tablet

10 points·st3fan··6 comments

With a lot of noise they told the world that they were going to build a $200 Web Tablet. But nothing seems to have happened since those postings? They promised a project web site but it is nowhere to be found.

Hoax? What do you think? Anyone with inside info?

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/the-techcrunch-web-tablet-project/ http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/21/techcrunch-web-tablet-part-2/

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Don't like to put down an Aussie, but it was written up on TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic - the same guy who was behind Omnidrive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidrive)

Nik's past doesn't feature too many home runs - and with that in mind I decided not to hold my breath for the release of the tablet!

I'd dearly like to be proven wrong, though.

Seconded. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/omnidrive_heading_for_d...

About two days after I saw that article I saw that Dell had added touch to their tablets. Doesn't meet the $200 goal, but it's a start. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoff...

Despite the quick momentum the idea picked up, it never quite left its pie-in-the-sky state. It will probably take even more community push before they do anything tangible with it.

Ostensibly,

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/

this happened.

I'm from the future. I bring you this piece of archival footage showing the week prior to Skynet becoming self-aware:

http://qik.com/video/156187

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