One of my co-workers has been pushing a similiar idea for a while, but it looks like Brockhaus has beaten us to it: Brockhaus’ 21st edition is now available on a 1 GM USB stick. Great stuff, but are they really charging 1,500 euros for it?
[Via Gizmodo.]
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1500 Euros is the “unverbindliche Preisempfehlung”. While the price for the paper encyclopedia is fixed (and only depending on your installment plan from 2400 (at once) to 3000 euros (100 euros every two month)), this prize can differ in street shops quite a lot.
We might see these sticks in some stores as “cheap” as 1k in the forseeable future.
Comment by Mathias Schindler — October 21, 2005 @ 8:47 pm
Here’s a free version of Wikipedia data circa four months old, weighing in at ~916MB with ~600,000 articles and ~90,000 images. Requires TomeRaider 3.
Comment by Brian — October 21, 2005 @ 9:23 pm
Supporting the medium itself isn’t terribly difficult. As I understand it, you can move an installation of Britannica’s CD/DVD products onto a thumb drive, perhaps even install directly to one.
Comment by eblogger — October 24, 2005 @ 4:47 am
The Brockhaus USB stick is offering a series of innovations, resulting from a government sponsored research project called “LeWi”. There are a number of important steps towards a query mechanism for questions in native language such as “Who is President of Panama?”.
And, of course, the usb stick is a great tool for implementing a dongle mechanism :)
Comment by Mathias Schindler — October 24, 2005 @ 8:13 pm