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Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99
An anonymous reader notes the announcement by Sean Moss-Pultz (Openmoko, Inc.) of a new geek device: The $99 WikiReader. All of Wikipedia in your pocket with no Internet connection required. Works in bright sunlight. 3-button interface. You can update the information in the WikiReader either by mail (they ship a microSD card) or by downloading a 4+ GB file.
Finally we have a hitch hiker's guide to Earth!
Great! Now I can regale and browbeat others with authoritative sounding misinformation wherever I go. Cafe discourses and dinner discussions will never be the same again!
May the Maths Be with you!
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Finally, the HHGG in your pocket.
Does it come with a towel, or do I need to provide my own?
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> Is there any sort of open form factor that vendors could use to be EITHER a GPS, a WikiReader, MP3 player, etc? Stop the gadget proliferation !!
Good news! You can get one gadget that's all that PLUS a phone!
=Smidge=
Mine's called k700i... But I often refer to it as Bob.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Obligatory xkcd
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
I have an iPhone. I already have Wikipedia in my pocket.
Of course, thanks to AT&T, its more like "I usually have Wikipedia in my pocket." :-)
The website looks like it was put together in a matter of minutes. I'm having "Netscape Composer" flashbacks.
I clicked "Media". I stopped looking for information when I saw the picture of the old man "researching" Megan Fox.
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
Is that the largest encyclopedia in the world for just $99 in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
You should have stayed there for just a bit longer.
Then you would have also noticed the white, bespectacled woman in her 50s "researching" Snoop Dog.
And that 6-year-old WikiReader poster child reading about string theory.
I did not click on the links to see the videos though.
I prefer the version I got in my head, where Will Smith bursts in and shoots that kid before it starts some shit.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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Or Chinese mode where everything about China is censored to be bad but it's good.
Wait what?
If "true sign of intelligence is"...."imagination.", then Wikipedia must be colorfully the most intelligent site there is. 8-)
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Wikipedia vs Choosing Randomly.
hmmmmm
"His name was James Damore."
But it is the iPhone. Not the jesusPhone.
At least not until you install the jesusPhone theme...
Did you ever stop to think that not Wiki but Google can also be provided as a flash drive, but that they won't do it since their scam is to make everybody connect to it over and over in order to get it dribbled out to them and set them up to get rich?