Surprised no one mentioned this here. (I didn't catch this article on the forum search, so unless the underlying device was discussed somewhere, I didn't find it)

Beagle Board based DIY MID. Yeah, it's ugly ... but if you focus on that, you're missing the point. Someone has made a MID with the Beagle Board. Upon which Mer could run...

It'd be interesting to see what DIY things could be done to refine it. There are various USB thumb keyboard products out there that could be cannibalized into a slide-out keyboard for it, things like that.

Personally, I'd go to 7" screen size, and try to make something like a 5-row keyboard version of the Samsung Q1 Ultra (which only has a 4 row keyboard), or a smaller version of the PepperPad. Not the pocketable device that many here want, but could be interesting.

Anyone else have thoughts about it?

(oh, and, it was also on engadget yesterday, as well)