The Crunchpad was a 12-inch touchscreen web tablet. The CrunchPad was an "initiative" by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, Louis Monier & Singapore based FusionGarage to build a computer to surf the webhttp://www.junauza.com/2009/12/joojoo-supposed-to-be-crunchpad-linux.html.

As quoted in TechCrunch - "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.http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/"

The joint venture project between TechCrunch and Fusion Garage collapsed on November 30 when Fusion Garage informed Techcrunch that they intended to sell the product directhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/.

On December 4, 2009, partner Mike Arrington conveyed that the development of the Crunchpad has stopped due to a problem with the hardware development partner Fusion Garage.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/04/crunchpad-litigation/

On December 7, 2009 Fusion Garage announced the launch of the Joojoohttp://venturebeat.com/2009/12/07/crunchpad-manufacturer-changes-product-to-joojoo-promises-launch-this-week/, which would be available for pre-order from [[December 11]http://venturebeat.com/2009/12/11/joojoo-formerly-crunchpad-late-to-launch-hit-by-techcrunch-lawsuit/]. This is basically a rebranded Crunchpad that will be sold direct. On December 10, Techcrunch announced a lawsuit for the following reasonshttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/crunchpad-federal-lawsuit-filed-some-additional-thoughts/:

1. Fraud and deceit,
2. Misappropriation of business ideas,
3. Breach of fiduciary duty,
4. Unfair competitition, and
5. violations of the Lanham Act.

Please read the Mahalo Page Joojoo-Lawsuit for more details.