Interesting - an open source product is born

This project is interesting because it is attempting to create a new hardware and software platform using open source techniques. And the product is simple enough that it might actually see the light of day. In addition, if the project works, it should be easy to spin other products off the base platform. Here’s the project:

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

The basic idea:

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…

If you are interested you can join in. Everyone else can come back in six months and see if it worked.