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Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Techcrunch Crunchpad Tablet (?)

10 points by sant0sk1 17y ago

bioinformatics 17y ago
Vapourware FTW! I'm surprised they didn't include Apple's tablet. [/sarcasm]
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proee 17y ago
That's borderline tabloid journalism...
jimboyoungblood 17y ago
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arithmetic 17y ago
Dont' call them products until you've sold one of them. Or even made one of them.
- ptomato 17y ago
  They've made several, though of course they're not for sale yet. But nonetheless.
michael_h 17y ago
Maybe this is Mike Arrington's way of announcing that the tablet will be out before the end of the year...he's a subtle man, you know.
- maukdaddy 17y ago
  Hopefully this won't go to his head.
yan 17y ago
Duke Nukem: Forever Game of the Year 2009?
jcl 17y ago
Heh... I like the article introduction: Most breakthrough innovations make their greatest contributions when they become products people can buy. Here, Popular Mechanics awards the top 10 most brilliant gadgets, tools and toys that you can buy in 2009. I guess it would have killed them to include purchase links. :)
edw519 17y ago
Hey, they forgot my flux capacitor!
jballanc 17y ago
"but the best part is the proof that today a tech fanboy can take the director’s chair and quickly prototype a smarter product Alternative copy: "but the fact that it hasn't shipped yet is the proof that the consumer electronics companies behind the most innovative products on the market today are packed full of hard-working, imaginative, smart people, and that can't be replaced on a whim"
theklub 17y ago
Can Techcrunch be a trusted and reputable news source once they start creating their own products?
- yan 17y ago
  Sure, at last as reputable as they are right now, why not? As long as they stay as objective as possible on other companies that also produce tablets and are upfront with their biases, I don't see a problem.
anigbrowl 17y ago
This is why I don't read Popular Mechanics. Maybe they've seen it, it rocks, it will be out by the time the print issue hits the stands...but it looks an awful lot like advertorial. And I consider myself a likely cheerleader for the Crunchpad. Don't even get me started on the multiple different kinds of fail in the full list.

10 points by sant0sk1 17y ago

bioinformatics 17y ago

Vapourware FTW! I'm surprised they didn't include Apple's tablet. [/sarcasm]

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proee 17y ago

That's borderline tabloid journalism...

jimboyoungblood 17y ago

See related story- Most Successful IPO of 2010: Twitter

arithmetic 17y ago

Dont' call them products until you've sold one of them. Or even made one of them.

ptomato 17y ago
They've made several, though of course they're not for sale yet. But nonetheless.

michael_h 17y ago

Maybe this is Mike Arrington's way of announcing that the tablet will be out before the end of the year...he's a subtle man, you know.

maukdaddy 17y ago
Hopefully this won't go to his head.

yan 17y ago

Duke Nukem: Forever Game of the Year 2009?

jcl 17y ago

Heh... I like the article introduction: Most breakthrough innovations make their greatest contributions when they become products people can buy. Here, Popular Mechanics awards the top 10 most brilliant gadgets, tools and toys that you can buy in 2009. I guess it would have killed them to include purchase links. :)

edw519 17y ago

Hey, they forgot my flux capacitor!

jballanc 17y ago

"but the best part is the proof that today a tech fanboy can take the director’s chair and quickly prototype a smarter product Alternative copy: "but the fact that it hasn't shipped yet is the proof that the consumer electronics companies behind the most innovative products on the market today are packed full of hard-working, imaginative, smart people, and that can't be replaced on a whim"

theklub 17y ago

Can Techcrunch be a trusted and reputable news source once they start creating their own products?

yan 17y ago
Sure, at last as reputable as they are right now, why not? As long as they stay as objective as possible on other companies that also produce tablets and are upfront with their biases, I don't see a problem.

anigbrowl 17y ago

This is why I don't read Popular Mechanics. Maybe they've seen it, it rocks, it will be out by the time the print issue hits the stands...but it looks an awful lot like advertorial. And I consider myself a likely cheerleader for the Crunchpad. Don't even get me started on the multiple different kinds of fail in the full list.