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Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99

Posted by kdawson on from the or-are-you-just-glad-to-see-me dept.

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.

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  1. Hitch Hiker's Guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally we have a hitch hiker's guide to Earth!

    1. Re:Hitch Hiker's Guide by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

      Finally we have a hitch hiker's guide to Earth!

      WTF are you talking about? Everything important to say about Earth can be summed up in two words.

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    2. Re:Hitch Hiker's Guide by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everything important to say about Earth can be summed up in two words.

      Is 'manbearpig' three words, one word or two halves of a word? ;)

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      We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
    3. Re:Hitch Hiker's Guide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Finally we have a hitch hiker's guide to Earth!

      Oddly enough the local version says "Panic!" in big frightening letters on the cover.

    4. Re:Hitch Hiker's Guide by Thinboy00 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, don't use threes, use fours!

      (Note to kooks and overzealous mods: Yes, this post is in fact a joke.)

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    5. Re:Hitch Hiker's Guide by quantumphaze · · Score: 2, Funny

      But if it doesn't have three corners it wouldn't be my hat

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  2. Sophists Dream by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    May the Maths Be with you!
  3. citation please by jDeepbeep · · Score: 4, Funny

    [citation required]

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    1. Re:citation please by Rockoon · · Score: 2, Funny

      [citation mostly harmless]

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  4. Don't Panic by lothos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, the HHGG in your pocket.

    Does it come with a towel, or do I need to provide my own?

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  5. Re:optional firmware for GPS ? by Smidge204 · · Score: 2, Funny

    > 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=

  6. Funny that... by denzacar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mine's called k700i... But I often refer to it as Bob.

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  7. Obligatory xkcd by lobiusmoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obligatory xkcd

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  8. Its called an iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    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." :-)

  9. The Website by oahazmatt · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    find their privates are on the Internet.
  10. lame joke by Daimanta · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that the largest encyclopedia in the world for just $99 in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

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  11. Aaah... too bad... by denzacar · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  12. Translation: by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

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  13. Re:Solution looking for a problem by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or Chinese mode where everything about China is censored to be bad but it's good.

    Wait what?

  14. Re:Solution looking for a problem by Zeussy · · Score: 2, Funny

    This seems like a good gift solution for

    a. hackers
    b. travelers
    c. parents

    d. Trivia Night husslers

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  15. Re:Solution looking for a problem by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia vs Choosing Randomly.

    hmmmmm

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  16. Re:optional firmware for GPS ? by dissy · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it is the iPhone. Not the jesusPhone.

    At least not until you install the jesusPhone theme...