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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.
... can it collapse possibilities in alternate universes, destroying the world in every parallel universe simulatenously and preventing the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything from being discovered?
What do you mean, it's just a portable media player? Pish. I'm waiting for version 2.0.
Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6, is filing for bankruptcy after facing a tax audit for 25% of her last financial year's earnings.
Argh.
who you are, where you are and what you are looking at.
Sounds like a less annoying replacement for my social worker.
Does it say "Don't Panic" In Bright Friendly Letters on the back?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
If it only works here on Earth....It would be relatively easy to make. Whereever you go, it would just repeat, "Mostly harmless."
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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1) Explore the galaxy
2) Get overwhelmed by it
3) Write a guide to it
4) Post a story to Slashdot publicising this amazing guide.
How can you publicise step 4, when you've yet to cover steps 1-3? Don't these people read Slashdot?
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
Yeah, but could you do it with only two weeks and a $100 budget?
"Go to CNN [for a] spell-checked, fact-checked summary" -- CmdrTaco
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.