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Web 2.0 cheerleader Michael Arrington’s inexpensive web tablet CrunchPad may be in mortal danger.

Higher-than-expected costs and repeated delays could mean the end of the project, says Silicon Alley Insider.

Arrington has said earlier the CrunchPad will be ready this year “for sure.” But the device has already missed a number of deadlines. It was last expected at the end of July or early August.

Arrington first wrote about the idea of a touchscreen tablet in June last year. He talked of a touchscreen device that would run Firefox and maybe Skype on top of a Linux kernel. The t

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Geekiness is quite an expensive passion, but not all gadgets and accompanying accessories require a serious look at finances before purchase. Youve got the cheap stuff, and you have the really cheap stuff.

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By now youre probably sick and tired of blogs all over listing Halloween-themed gadgets, how you can use gadgets to be scary, bla bla bla. Its not like I made such a list last year anyway, so Ill just hook you up with this electric chair haunted house prop, scary video below.

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First the Nook (pictured), now the MediaBook?

(Credit: Barnes & Noble)

The question is, who isn’t getting in on the e-book reader action these days? Less than two weeks after we met Barnes & Nobles’ Nook and just a few days after hearing of tire maker Bridgestone’s plans for a flexible e-reader, our friends at Crave UK alerted us that Creative may be hopping on the e-reader bandwagon as well.

Creative fan site EpiZenter.net (so named for Creative’s family of popular Zen MP3 players) reports that the company showed off a working model of its first e-book reader, tentatively named the MediaBook, at its annual general meeting Thursday in Singapore.

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