Friday, April 15, 2005
Your guide to life, the universe and everything
You can now connect you cell phone to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Jax
The mobile edition has been made by the BBC rather than "the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor" who, in Douglas Adams' book, created the original.
Owners of smartphones and handheld computers will be able to access the guide while they are out and about.
The portable edition contains 7,000 articles from the H2G2 site covering life, the Universe and everything.
The original idea for Earth's very own version of the guide put together by anyone who had time to contribute came from Adams himself.
Mr Adams' own company managed the project in its early days but in 2001 the BBC took over and moved it to its current website.
In some respects the way that the H2G2 website was put together pre-figures the idea of the wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, that is also written, edited and checked by ordinary web users.
"Douglas Adams was years before his time," said Tony Ageh, BBC controller, Internet. "But thanks to modern mobile technology, what was once only a harebrained idea has now become a startling reality."The mobile edition of the guide has been timed to coincide with the release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film. (Link)
I am so looking forward to this movie. Only two more weeks...
