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The WikiReader kind of reminds me of the Nintendo Wii. Gadget lovers who want a device with the latest bells and whistles may not exactly go crazy over it. But it’s great for kids, mom and dad, or just your casual non-tech person.
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WikiReader: Travel Guide for the Curious
In this age of smart cards, smartphones and “i” this-n-that, you might wonder what value an electronic gizmo not linked by satellite, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, GPRS, GSM, WMD, or even a string connected to a soup can would be to a traveler.
CNET News: WikiReader—simple, singular
The WikiReader software load is very simple. There’s no OS, not even Linux; just one application to run the Wikipedia browser, for example. All of the software, along with the compressed Wikipedia database, is provided on the Micro SD card. There are some diagnostic programs, and there’s even a simple four-function calculator “Easter egg” that comes up in response to a History-Power button combination.
Associated Press: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
There are few better illustrations of the staggering advance of digital technology than the new WikiReader. It’s the size of a thick table coaster, and contains nearly the entire text of the English-language Wikipedia. That’s 3.1 million articles, written and edited by volunteers around the globe.
New York Times: The World in Your Pocket
But there’s a bigger potential audience as well: the hundreds of millions of people around the world who don’t have computers, don’t have public Internet access and may not even have electricity. The company is thinking about how the world could open up for third-world villagers with a device like this.
Design Boom: WikiReader
The wikireader from openmoko is a palm- sized electronic encyclopedia containing more than three million english wikipedia articles that can be accessed without an internet connection.
Wired: Is That The Wikipedia In Your Pocket, Or..?
Don’t scoff. A non-connected, monochrome, three-button device might not be, say, the mythical Apple Tablet in terms of hardware hotness (too many buttons for one thing), but $99 for a touch-screen Wikipedia that fits in your pocket and only needs a battery change every year is the perfect stocking-filler for the technophobe.
Fast Company: Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader
Think of Wikipedia, and your mental image probably has you sitting at a PC tapping your queries in. But that’s about to change because Wikipedia’s Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker’s Guide kind of way.
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