Not to be outdone by the worldliness of Sharp’s new e-Dictionary, Openmoko, the makers of the WikiReader, today announced downloadable updates for the palm-sized encyclopedia to support 14 additional languages including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Greek, French, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Welsh, Russian and Hungarian. In addition to translated versions of the WikiReader’s 3 [...]
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No Comments »Want access to the complete dictionaries of a dozen common world languages in the palm of your hand? While this information and more could easily be had with a basic smartphone, some frequent world travelers without stable Internet connections may still find it convenient to keep the translated lexicons of various cultures in their back [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Gadgets Tags: e-Dictionary, eDictionary, PW-AC10, Sharp, smartphone, WikiReader 1 Comment »Despite the rise of eBooks and digitized printed media, some people still prefer the look and feel of printed paper. To cater to these technological hold-outs, PediaPress has developed a novel (pun definitely intended) online tool to create and print books filled with Wikipedia content. Unlike the portable WikiReader, which stuffs millions of the most popular [...]
As a kid, I can remember paging through the volumes of my school’s encyclopedia in amazement that so much information could be so compactly compiled. Then I got my first CD-ROM drive, blazing fast with a 2X read speed, which came bundled with an edition of Compton’s encyclopedia. The disk included huge numbers of pictures, sound clips, [...]
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