Lightweight and slim, with a notably vivid and 'crisp' 12.1-inch touchscreen display - that's JooJoo --- a tablet-like device designed and developed by the Singapore-based Fusion Garage! The essentially-Internet-surfing-specific JooJoo tablet, which has been priced at $500, will become available for sale online from December 11, 2009 onwards.

The 2.4-pound JooJoo is nearly 13.4-inches deep, and features a capacitive touchscreen, giving the device a responsiveness that is almost akin to an iPhone touchscreen. Also boasting an LCD screen for supporting high-definition content, the JooJoo has a slimmer profile than the Apple Macbook Air.

Running a custom operating system developed by Fusion Garage, the 'fast' JooJoo instantly directs the user to services that they may use.

The homepage screen of the tablet is divided vertically into three sections: 'Be connected' - for services like Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube; 'Be informed' - featuring sites like The New York Times, Reuters, AOL and CNN; and 'More apps' - featuring icons that link to Google docs, Yahoo and Hulu.

Elaborating about the forthcoming Fusion Garage tablet during a web conference, the company's CEO Chandrasekar 'Chandra' Rathakrishnan said: "The Internet is the application for the device. It is the first to boot within 9 seconds. Not 2 minutes, not 30 seconds, but a 9 second boot time. JooJoo truly comes close to achieving instant on."