Fed up waiting for a dream gadget? Build it yourself…
I love this, just posted up here on the Techcrunch site…
Essentially, they’re bored of waiting for a hardware manufacturer to come up with a decent, simple, cheap web tablet. Sure, there are some on the market, they’ve been in development for ages, and they’re pretty expensive as a result (hey, gotta get back that R&D money somehow…).
So the guys at Techcrunch are proposing that any interested parties who have suitable skills start getting together to, well, just build it themselves. Don’t wait for a company to do it, it’ll take too long, and it won’t be as good.
It’s stuff like this that confirms we’re beginning to see a shift from online crowd-creation (Wikipedia etc), to realworld objects, devices, gizmos, stuff…
Personally, I’m holding out for the opensource ‘build your own house’…
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