Openmoko WikiReader: ICTworks Interview with Pat Meier-Johnson

The WikiReader from Openmoko is Google Search on steroids with the entire 3+ million Wikipedia articles, and a Library of Alexandria in your pocket that will never burn down. Now listen to Pat Meier Johnson talk about how it will revolutionize your leisure time.

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so high we here with my city works
interview and we have
Pat Meyer Johnson and over the PR firm
for open mogul and open local just came
out with this new device
what is this this new device is called
weekly reader
and basically it gives you the 3.1 plus
million articles up the english-language
Wikipedia
on this device that's about size a man's
wallet
and what's really cool about it is that
it is totally
also this is like the entire Wikipedia
in your pocket
exactly and you don't have to worry
about being online are finding wifi
access anything like that it's already
there
exactly exactly and it's it's to sign
for it
really anybody anybody wants to snack on
information
you've got older people that same don't
want the complication of a smartphone is
good million generous
type display you've got
kids who might want to look up things
and they're protected because her
parental controls on then you've got all
sorts of adults who want to use it
anytime anywhere you know
you can be a genius to your kids you
know you can have every answer
you know the answer to all the all the
world's questions in your pants pocket
you know you wanna see it
up that's great I think parents every
word love the ability to one up their
children with knowledge that
that they could while their children up
totally I mean imagine you are you going
on a on a road trip with your kids and a
your little one says mummy where did
Dairy Queen come from it
okay you know what I think I don't know
you can look up Dairy Queen on this i
mean you can just type in dairy Queen
and is really quite a fascinating story
so he tell us a
interesting subject the you look they've
recently in line
your day oh absolutely I was at my mom's
house and she recently passed away
to we was selling a mattress
mississippi new mattress and I could
remember what was the size of a full
mattress
or double mattress I happen to have this
with me so hated
you know on matters am
me T
are
and as you type that the words appear
so there is that matters and
also said you've got metres here know it
not only has mattress
but as you scroll it in Scopus nyse:
touch
interface you also find out things like
on Neolithic period the mattress in bed
or
invented beds are raised off the ground
to avoid rafts
a 3600 BC minced meat goat skins filled
with water are used in Persia
while %uh the first waterbed 3600 BC no
I wouldn't have known that
unless I had this thing if I had gone
Union
and just looked up a narrow what is the
size of a full mattress or a double
mattress
I miss this so this is
Google enlightened it is so when you
search now instead of just getting the
Fairfax you actually get the
history in the story behind it right and
not only that but as you go through this
you can even go to all the hyperlinks in
the articles so I
just hit goatskin and I've got photo bag
in a min you can see how one thing can
lead to another and you can just totally
get lost in information was the ultimate
time sync on this product are
you've got search history and from a
random random
is just look eat a few times because he
had random
and you keep getting articles I mean
it's like pulling
the on one arm bandit in Las Vegas you
keep getting
and new topic but what's also need about
this
is that his parental controls so if
you're kidnapped in trenton is something
that we should see
you can have a friend controlling good
come here
so if I get excited night hit random for
a while I start getting lost
in the Wikipedia how long does the too
little
double A batteries AAA batteries AAA
batteries you can use in 15 minutes a
day for a full year
while full-year so I think the next
them killer app for this will be the 15
minute timer see you know how many
minutes a day you can use this for
before course your boss your spouse
tells you it's time
oh absolutely can you imagine a
Thanksgiving dinner
and everybody around the tables got one
of these sitting there
and they're all like being like be
ultimate expert on things that we would
never have known before I mean it's
really fun
that's the ultimate cheat device which
will pursue I'll tell me about it
the I and for ninety nine dollars I mean
this is ninety nine dollars and you've
got
free updates if you think the micro SD
card out and
update on your computer or if you want a
replacement by Christy card
for people who don't have computers
don't want to deal with it it's twenty
nine dollars
and you get two free micro SD year and
you really can't beat that
and this is great so this would actually
have interesting use keys
implements a Africa where bandwidth is
expensive if it exists at all
precisely I mean really seriously this
is very close
to the core values what the company is
all about helping local
is really bringing information everybody
anywhere
anytime and certainly education in
places where there's no connectivity is
you peak be matter for them
and very interested I can see this to be
the
a great resource for teachers gets the
teachers could look up history and
information
classes they wanted teachers objects
they want to cover absolutely i mean is
this concert lament a text book for
instance
it can be for somebody who's traveling
give you
all kinds rich information about a
destination for instance
so for history teachers geography
teachers any incentives
you really looking at anything that
sandwich so how many articles are how
much information is
on the humidor over 3.1 million
articles so that's like an entire
live a valid century in your pocket it
is and this one burned down
so the weekly reader who developed it
this company called
open mo ko and a developed the first
totally open mobile phone
and that's a couple of years ago on
this was skunks skunkworks project
kinda in the back room they have people
working on this and it kept evolving
kept evolving and all of a sudden it
just kept becoming a better and better
product
injustice last Tuesday be launched it
and it's available on Amazon and of the
week you return to
come site that's great thank you so much
for your time tonight
thanks man alright