This time the story goes that a team from eSarcasm couldn’t wait till they laid their hands on a CrunchPad. So they dressed up as cleaning ladies and broke into the TechCrunch office to find that the tablet is actually a color Etch A Sketch with a TV antenna on top. Among the discoveries was also a marketing document that stated the device should be available in February at a cost of $1200. If you want an internet connection, you will have to pay extra for a premium 56K modem, the documents revealed.

This is not the first time eSarcasm has practiced its journalistic excellence. Last July they also revealed that the CrunchPad will sport AutoRumor and AlwaysRight technology which are being developed by FusionGarage in order to “emulate the true experience of reading the TechCrunch site.”

Around the same time, UK publisher The Register also wanted to be a publisher turned hardware developer like TechCrunch. So they introduced the RegPad which will come with a biscuit dispenser.

A few weeks later, Alley Insider decided this was getting very competitive. So they launched their own AlleyPad which is a yellow notepad that has unlimited battery life and does not require a wireless signal.