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6 HN users recommended this between 2009 and 2025, in 6 comments.
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6 HN users recommended this between 2009 and 2025, in 6 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Specs at Amazon (4.5 oz; 128 grams) http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B...
A review: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/the-wikireader.php
CrunchGear review: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/13/wikireader-packs-all-of...
It's a hp200lx-style: B&W display, incredible battery-life. Anyone have more specs on the processor?
I predict an incredibly small, cheap, light and efficient x-term-based, ARM-based linux machine.
Just reading this topic, turns out you can grab this for $11.99 + p&h from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B...
I'm actually considering getting one of these for that price, would be an interesting device to tinker with FORTH.
Right now it's under 35 bucks shipped on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but the book that would be most practical to actually recover society after disaster from a purely technical standpoint would be the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Chemistry-Physics-94th-Editio...
The sheer amount of information in that huge book is crazy.
Another alternative would be a wikipedia backup stored on an SD card and one of these or similar: http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...
Method described would work only on Time Travellers that are stuck in our time with no technical means of going back and no detailed documented knowledge of current time [1]. Two queries chosen (pope and some comet) are non significant in daily life. You would be lucky to find 1 in 10000 people that ever in their lives formulated a question about those subjects out loud. In my opinion it would be more prudent to look for signs of prior knowledge about natural disasters. Stranded time traveller will be more interested in avoiding tsunami, earthquake, tornado or a flood, and will most likely know general time frame instead of detailed dates (unless he possesses [1] device).
*1: $25 WikiReader Pocket Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...
Something tells me time traveller from the future would have modernized equivalent.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/11/hands...
https://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia...