By Charlie Sorrel, Wired.com
December 30, 2009
"As a youngster, I was once given a one-year subscription to the National Geographic. Like most people, I looked at the (wonderful) pictures and promised myself I would read the articles later. A promise which was, of course, never kept (although I did often sneak a peek at the pictures of the women of tribes which have less strict rules on clothing than us).
The trouble with the Nat Geo was that, to me at least, it seemed like a chapter of an encyclopedia, not a magazine. Now you can actually use it that way, with a new hard-drive which puts every copy, ever, in one easy-to-search place. For $200, the National Geographic will sell you a 160GB hard drive, 60GB of which consists of scans of the entire back catalog, including the ads (sometimes the best part of looking back in time).
The browsing interface looks pretty, well, pretty, and owes a lot to OS X’s cover flow. You can search text, articles and photos, and of course just lose hours browsing 120 yeas of the iconic mag. The biggest surprise to us is that the entire library takes up just 60GB, just 500MB per year. The collection has been available on DVD for some time now, but that is obviously a disk-swapping, battery-draining pain compared to a nice compact USB HD. Better, you can have it personalized, with the name of your chosen giftee printed onto the case of the drive itself.
The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive [National Geographic]"
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/hard-drive-packs-in-every-national-geographic-issue-ever/
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