Operation: Project: Awesome™

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has announced plans to design, manufacture, and open source a "dead simple web tablet".

Foregoing the stodgy old traditions of paying professional industrial designers, engineers, and software developers, the project will instead leverage the collective genius of TechCrunch readers worldwide.

Driven by Michael Arrington's Imagination, and powered by Moon Ponies, the Future Tablet™ will cost just $200 and have the following specifications:

• It is as thin as a MacBook Air
• It has a touch screen, like an iPhone or an iPod Touch
• It harnesses the Awesome Power of Linux
• It runs Firefox and Skype
• It has Wi-Fi, and maybe a USB port
• It has a battery, for when the Moon Ponies are sleeping
• It has 4-gigabytes of solid-state storage
• It has a video camera
• It has speakers and a headphone jack

To get the ball rolling, TechCrunch have released 3D renderings of the proposed Project Super-Cool: Freedom Tablet™.