Michael Arrington is calling the brainy guys out there to design a cheap $200 table for him. As per what he has posted in his site, he wants the device to be Macbook-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. Lets wait and see the outcome.

Here’s the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too.

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