Wikipedia is arguably the world’s greatest encyclopedia. Its most famous attribute — that anyone can go in at any time and add or change an entry — has worked in its favor, making it extensive and exhaustive. A company called Openmoko believes that Wikimedia is so useful, there could be a need for an inexpensive device dedicated solely to reading Wikimedia’s 3 million+ topics.

It’s called the WikiReader, and it’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. It has just three buttons (search, history, and random), but features a touchscreen with a virtual keyboard for searching through entries. …read more

Who would have thought that you could get an MP3 player along with 1,000 songs for less than $100? SanDisk, inventors of flash storage cards, has released a very affordable new MP3 player that requires no downloads and no computer, storing songs on its proprietary MicroSD cards.

It’s called “slotRadio,” and the technology that makes it work is smartly utilized to create a very attractive package for consumers. The slotRadio player is bundled with a 1,000 song slotRadio Mix card, which plays in your slotRadio player or SanDisk’s Sansa Fuze player. The Mix cards are preloaded with 1,000 full songs from …read more