Instructables has a new how-to guide to building your own Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in real life. As you know, the HHGTTG is one of my favorite SciFi gadgets of all time, so I’m definitely down with this idea. In their guide, they use an old handheld PC (a Psion 5mx) running on Linux and dump a static copy of Wikipedia into it. Now, I happen to have an old HP Jornada 680 (in a box in the attic) and I’m thinking about giving this a try. I’ve been ruminating on uses for this obsolete gadget for a couple of years now. But then I remembered I have a Palm T|X and a 2GB SD card, so I copied Wikipedia (168MB) and put it there. Now I have my own H2G2 in my pocket, to tell me anything (mostly accurate) that I need to know. All I need is a “Don’t Panic” sticker and I’m set.
Via io9.
