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The Real Hitchhiker's Guide?
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."
We have had GPS, PDAs and satellite phones for years, they just need to be tied together to make a 'guide'. More important is the *data* and no one company could possibly generate or manage the quantity required.
The closest things to the guide we will ever see have been around for a while already - h2g2, wikipedia and the internet as a whole.
Beep beep.
Kinda cute, yet when you leave the Earth you'll be a little stuck as it uses GPS to work out where it is.
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That'd be "the hitchiker's guide to things we consider important enough". The actual galaxy contains things such as hotels, bars, pubs, cafes, elementary schools, malls, shops, streets, and bus stops.