WikiReader is nominated for Condé Nast Traveller’s 2010 Innovation & Design Awards.
Some people travel simply to enjoy sunshine, sea and sand, some for cultural or culinary adventures; others choose to focus on seeing the world’s natural wonders. Regardless of where and why you travel, the experience is enhanced by design and innovative thinking: applied to airplanes, trains, museums and restaurants, the shops we seek out, the gadgets we tap on or tune into.
Wiki World - Barrons
IT’S THE PERFECT GIFT FOR those who like their gadgets straightforward and simple — a palm-sized slab whose sole purpose is to access Wikipedia, the sprawling online encyclopedia.
Tiny Reader Puts Wikipedia In Your Pocket | Wired.com
When the zombie apocalypse hits, you’ll want to have a copy of Wikipedia with you. And you’ll want to make sure it works even if the power is out, cellphone and internet connections are nonexistent, and you’re hunkered down in a remote cave. That way, you’ll be able to consult the sum of all human knowledge to figure out if that mushroom you’re looking at is a healthy and nutritious snack, or a fatally neurotoxic toadstool…
Gift Guide: High-Tech Happiness for $100 or Less | New York Times
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.
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.
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.
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.
