Surfing the web "only" device

Super cool from the NY Times blog Bits:

The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web. Turn it on and up comes a browser.

I came up with an idea in the late 90s for something similar that had included a QWERTY keyboard since at the time, the touch screen wasn't developed yet. We developed a business plan that included licensing the technology instead of building it ourselves, got an attorney on board, and after an aggressive patent search, we found a patent held by National Semiconductor that stopped us. Their device never came out.