"The Wall Street Journal officially broke the news, with Engadget running a piece about the tech specs of the Litl Easel. From a tech side, the device is pretty interesting. It runs Ubuntu's mobile-device software stack, and uses Firefox's Spidermonkey JavaScript engine to handle most of its UI-rendering duties. The back end is a mix of Amazon and Google's cloud-computing services, since the device stores very little data locally:
"All machine data is stored in the cloud, so you can have a gorilla stomp on your litl, pick up another one, log on and instantly recreate your environment. (Since we developers are always abusing our prototype hardware, we've tested this a lot!) [*]
The other pieces of the puzzle are also pretty neat: it uses an HDMI connector so it can plug into an HDTV and work as a digital photo album."
