The WikiReader Goes on a Hiking Trip

Traveling light, away from cell phones connections and computers, the WikiReader becomes the perfect travel companion, providing a rich encyclopedia of all 3.1 million Wikipedia articles on a small handheld touchscreen device. In this video Pat Meier-Johnson uses the WikiReader to explore the history and learn more about nature found in the Marin Headlands in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area along the Tennesee Valley trail just a few miles from San Francisco. http://thewikireader.com

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Tennessee Valley was my favorite places
to go hiking
in its place with typically I would not
be using a cell phone
couldn't use it anyway there's no cell
phone signal here but this is my new
traveling companion this is the week
e-readers and on it
are all 3.1 million Wikipedia articles
in the English language
and it's a disconnected device that
means I don't have to go online
to use it no why would I want a week
e-reader here
in this beautiful area book there are
new signs popping up
in this one is a brand new sign marking
the Marin chill oatmeal
so wanted to find out what is the Marin
chillin trail
all about so all you need to do is turn
on the wiki leader
indicate your virtual keyboard and you
start typing in what you're looking for
im a or
by in
see in there you have Marin cello
and it turned out that
Marin chillin with the field development
project in Marin County California were
in Marin
win the beautiful Golden Gate National
Recreation Area
and it was the establishment over the
Marin Headlands in the Golden Gate
National
recreation area that actually presented
this area from being turned into
a coverage apartments and townhouses
they were even planning on covering
these hills with the mall
there are plenty of reasons you'd want
to travel with the week in review
for instance you're walking down a trail
here and you might actually see a great
horned owl
look it up on the weekly reader it's got
plenty of information about wildlife
or you might encounter a sign that says
something about
wetlands look it up on the wiki Peters
even something about
mountain bikes look it up on the wiki
lead
imagine if you're overseas
you're in a foreign country you're a
tourist look up things about Venice for
instance on the weekly reader
if you want to look it up on your
smartphone you be invoking tremendous
roaming charges
and with the wealth of information on
here he wouldn't want to be lugging
around heavy tourist books and guides
its all right here on this lightweight
device so it's not nice
for only $99 dollars you can have an
encyclopedia in your pocket