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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. The hardware is not important by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    Beep beep.
    1. Re:The hardware is not important by JahToasted · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, the most important thing is that is has the words "DON'T PANIC" written on the cover.

  2. Yes, but ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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.

  3. And in related news... by HugePedlar · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Argh.
  4. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    who you are, where you are and what you are looking at.

    Sounds like a less annoying replacement for my social worker.

  5. Here on earth by xenoxaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it only works here on Earth....It would be relatively easy to make. Whereever you go, it would just repeat, "Mostly harmless."