TechCrunch has released a few more specialized details, pictures, and general write-up about their CrunchPad project as a recent fortuitous leak saw a new round of images posted to the web. It seems that the tablet has continued to grow and evolve with the help of an Intel Atom chip (as opposed to the Via chip long ago used), new os from Fusion Garage, and a bottom-up Linux install. "I wanted existence I couldn't buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined. The goal — a very thin and light touch screen computer, sans materialistic keyboard, that has no hard drive and boots now to a browser to surf the web. The overhead system exists solely to handle the utensils drivers and run the browser and registered delegate applications. That's it."

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