Putting Wikipedia in Your Pocket

Posted by on 11/15 at 06:00 AM Discuss in Forums • Permalink
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Like it or hate it, trust it or not, you can’t deny that Wikipedia is something of a phenomenon. It houses well over 3 million articles on hundreds of topics, and those numbers are growing daily. Many, many people use Wikipedia as a source of information, and for the most part it’s quite reliable. Obviously, you need to be connected to the Internet to use it. What happens when you’re offline and need your hit of Wikipedia? You’re not out of luck. Thanks to a company called OpenMoko, you can carry Wikipedia in your pocket. Literally. All thanks to a gadget called the WikiReader.

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    Posted by Gary  on  11/15  at  08:52 AM

  1. This might have been a nice idea a few years ago but for 2010 it’s too little, too late and too expensive—a Kindle gives you *much* more, including /live/ access to Wikipedia (and the rest of the internet) for well under three times the price with no “annual subscription fee” nonsense.  By this time next year, and probably sooner, full ebook readers which can do more than the WikiReader does will be in the hundred-dollar range.

    OpenMoko might be able to salvage this device by adding a USB port and the ability to do live updates; the idea is fine but the execution just isn’t quite there.

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