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The Real Hitchhiker's Guide?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the glimpses-of-what's-to-come dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The UK's biggest selling newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, has a news story about a UK company that has developed the real version of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the galaxy. It is a kind of portable media player that allows you to travel the world's surface and receive media tailored to who you are, where you are and what you are looking at."

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  1. Hmmm... by TheHarker · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...First off, I don't think the Telegraph is even the biggest selling conservative/rightwing paper in the UK (never mind the UK as a whole). I think someone's PR machine is trying to be resourceful.
    Secondly, Mr Adams and the BBC had already started an earth version of h2g2 quite a while back.

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  2. Amusing... by Ender_Stonebender · · Score: 2, Informative

    I find this amusing, seeing as Douglas Adams had the idea for "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as he was hitchiking through Europe - accompanied by a book called "The Hitchiker's Guide to Europe."

    --Ender

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    Loose things are easy to lose. You're getting your hair cut. They're going there to see their aunt.
  3. Re:the galaxy? by dangitman · · Score: 2, Informative
    it gives detailed information throughout the whole milky way?

    C'mon, the fictional guide didn't even provide detailed information throughout the milky way. Quote:

    In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

    First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  4. Repeated story by ChunKing · · Score: 3, Informative



    Haven't we had this story two weeks ago:

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 18/1759259&tid=100&tid=193&tid=218

    Or is today's story that the Daily Telegraph has run a story about this gadget?

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  5. Node by PlasticMonkey · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not meaning to troll but I'm sure node has been posted at lease four times in the past year...

  6. Telegraph biggest selling paper? Beg to differ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Try the Sun - about 5 times as many readers.

    If your after the biggest selling broadsheet (=quality), try The Times (about 2x as many readers as The Telegraph).

    I can't find circulation figures on the net at the moment, but since the absurd /. mod system means that no-one will read this comment because it wasn't posted within the first few minutes of the article being posted, I don't suppose that matters