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#Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
October 13
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Mahmood Padura, Kol Tregaskes, Robert Freeze and 7 other people liked this
"Meet the WikiReader, developed by Openmoko in official collaboration with Wikipedia and available at retail starting today for $99. As the press release says, it's a "palm-sized electronic encyclopedia containing the more than three million English language articles of Wikipedia" that works entirely off-line. In a time when people are raving about e-readers, the Wikireader is a neat little piece of lateral-thinking, being part electronic-book, part e-reader...and having the advantage of instant power-on, and cheap price due to its simple components."
- Shevonne
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I'm waiting for the one you can point at a bird or leaf or something and have it identified for you.
- Kamilah Gill
I like Kamilah's idea. Somebody should get right on that. A fully functional tri-corder.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
$100 to carry the text of wikipedia around? That really makes Kindle look like a good deal.
- Joel Bennett
Yep.
- Roberto Bonini
All it needs is the words, "Don't Panic" in nice friendly lettering... and a towel. - Love it!
- Robert Freeze