Thrown this week, by the company Openmoko, WikiReader is a portable pocket device created to transform Wikipedia in something tangible, being capable to store all its content in English (something around 3,5 million articles).

The apparel possesses a screen monochrome touchscreen of 3.7’ and it stores the texts in a microSD card (4 GB), what makes unnecessary the connection with the internet. The reduction of the content of the site (that according to the company was of 25 GB) for only 4 GB is interesting, but that implicates in the suppression of the pictures of the content.

There are only 4 physical buttons in Wikireader: one to tun on and to turn off, a search button, that when being clicked offers a virtual keyboard to insert the wanted terms, a historical button, that, besides showing the pages of Wiki already visited, it can also be used to return to an accessed content and, finally, the random button, done to help to those that want know on something, but they don’t know the exactly what.

The updating can be made in two ways. The first implicates in the connection of the device to a computer, to do the free download of the new content. The other way is to pay to Openmoko an annual amount of 29 dollars, to receive twice home a new card microSD in one year.

Via: The Register.