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Freescale Designs $200 Tablet Pc

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While everyone thought that the mythical price of the Crunchpad, which has become the JooJoo, would be impossible to achieve this year, it turns out that a reference design for a $200 tablet will be made available later this year by Freescale.

Texas-based Freescale is a maker of computer chips…

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January 4th, 2010 by: Range

Notion Ink’S Adam: Throw Another Tablet on the Pile

Notion Ink's Adam looking pretty sleek

With all the brouhaha slowly dying down about the CrunchPad and the JooJoo, Notion Ink quietly slipped in some news about its upcoming tablet PC called the Adam.

Notion Ink was spouting some complete nonsense last week about the Adam’s battery life. Check this out: they said that it would…

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December 28th, 2009 by: Range

New Olpc Xo-3 is a Thin Tablet That’S Pure Vaporware, or is It?

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This new OLPC looks quite amazing. It’s an ultra-thin tablet PC that’s supposed to be released in a few years. Is it pure vaporware?

Even though the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project had a bunch of setbacks and price hikes, it doesn’t stop getting more ambitious. Apparently this third…

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December 24th, 2009 by: Range

Blump It Tablet Interface Tries to Outdo Joojoo

With all the buzz about tablet PCs like the soon-to-be-maybe-released CrunchPad JooJoo and sure-to-be-possible-someday Apple tablet, it was only a matter of time before the market will fill up with a variety of tablets and interfaces vying for a piece of pie in the great tablet landgrab of 2010. The…

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December 19th, 2009 by: Technabob

Stellarwindow Turns Tablet Pcs Into a Virtual Planetarium

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This intriguing hardware/software combo from Japan’s Fairy Devices lets you turn a tablet PC into a veritable “window to the stars”.

As you hold your PC up and move it around, the highly-sensitive motion-sensor USB module sends position data to the StellarWindow’s planetarium software, adjusting the viewport to match the…

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December 8th, 2009 by: Technabob

Joojoo (Formerly Crunchpad) Specs, Price, Pre-Order Date

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After Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch and Fusion Garage parted ways on their much-anticipated CrunchPad collaboration, I figured the tablet would be dead. But the rumors of the demise of the tablet formerly known as CrunchPad appear to be greatly exaggerated. The guys over at Fusion Garage have decided to go it…

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December 7th, 2009 by: Technabob

The Crunchpad Project is Dead… or is It?

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Unless something awesome happens, this will be our first and last post about the CrunchPad, TechCrunch head Michael Arrington’s nearly-there web tablet. Yesterday, Arrington announced on TechCrunch that the project “self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.”… Goddammit. Some things are just too good to be true.

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December 1st, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Apple Tablet Pc Pics, Specs, Price and Release Date Speculation

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, tech geeks all around the world have been speculating salivating about the impending announcement of a Apple’s tablet computer, currently rumored to be called the iTablet (I’ve also heard it could be called the MacBook Touch or the iPAD).…

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August 15th, 2009 by: Technabob

Dream Tablet Mod Flattens Out the Dreamcast

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Modder Ben Heckendorm’s forums are always packed with portable projects, but this one’s a little different. You’ve got to hook up a separate controller, but that’s hardly anything to complain about when we’re talking about a Sega Dreamcast shoved into the body of a tablet PC.

The Dream Tablet, as…

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April 2nd, 2009 by: Alisha K.

Duo: Turn Any Monitor to a Touchscreen

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People who want or need a tablet or touch screen display don’t really have a lot of affordable options. For example, Wacom’s tablets are nice – Penny Arcade’s Gabe uses it – but they’re quite expensive. Fortunately, Korean company Pen and Free has invented a peripheral device that might make touch…

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December 17th, 2008 by: Lambert Varias

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