Comments on: Forget ubicomp, think sofacomp

By: Jana Korsmeyer

Jana Korsmeyer — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:08:29 +0000

Alot of bloggers aren’t really pleased with the new iPad.There was 2 much hype regarding it and lots of people got turned off.Quite frankly, I for one see great deal of the awesome potential of this gadget. Third-party soft for making tunes, games, papers and magazines and FFS books, all kinds of awesome stuff, but they just didn’t really sell it very well (aside from the books). It feels rather undercooked

By: pdanderson

pdanderson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:56:53 +0000

Hi Raz, I believe there is also a way to download a file to the WikiReader from a PC, but I’ve yet to investigate that method.

By: Raza Rizvi

Raza Rizvi — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:09:31 +0000

Surely such a device could spew out a code that would allow the user to download updates from Wikipedia to a local PC/MAC and then have them uploaded to the reader over a USB link.

That would still keep the device cost down (as it doesn’t have to understand IP or have wireless etc) and yet allow it to be updated much quicker than having a flash card sent in the post.

I can see the use in the pub or a curry house or, dare I say it, a school quiz…