A while ago, Michael Arrington from Techncrunch posted an idea on his blog that generated a lot of excitement among the IT crowd.

The idea was to build a Full-touchscreen Tablet computer that would be affordable enough for any average tech enthusiast and would also compete with the industry-leading Tablet devices not only in terms of its affordability, but also its design and usability.

The project is labeled as the CrunchPad and after months of prototype-testing, the device is actually coming to reality and let me tell you honestly, its sleek, its sexy and its brilliant.

From what we assume looking at the launch-prototype of the CrunchPad, it has definitely evolved from a mere touchscreen piece-of-nothing into a full-featured Tablet computer that will be the ultimate requirement for a 24-hour web surfer.

The device basically runs on a light-weight Linux distribution which directly boots into a web-kit based browser which integrates all web services and allows you to surf websites, watch videos and do anything on the Internet.

From where I see it, the launch of the CrunchPad might kick Kindle in the balls as CrunchPad seems to provide more than just e-reading capabilities and probably at a much cheaper price.

The price for the device, along with the complete technical specifcations, will be officially annoucned next month. Go watch a demo of an earlier prototype and decide whether this device will really make a buzz on its launch or not?