Oh! la bonne idée...

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

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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 as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them.




Here’s the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too.

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L'idée est simple et oh combien belle. La technologie existe et le prix réaliste. Je ne doute pas que l'appareil puisse voir le jour prochainement. Et je peux vous assurer que j'en achèterai un! Je ne crois pas être le seul à trouver l'idée intéressante : elle a générée plus de 800 commentaires sur TechCrunch!