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Rosetta Wearable Disk

78 points by mmastrac 10y ago

bArray 10y ago
It would be nice to have an electronic version. What interface would truly stand the test of time?
- johanvts 10y ago
  There is an electronic version on the web-page.
imode 10y ago
this is fascinating. I wonder if you could do something a tad larger for things like mathematics and logic. I'd buy that. a wearable reference that you can use with optical magnification.
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago
  Then all you need is a special contact lens and you can cheat in exams!
huangc10 10y ago
Link to interactive web version here: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/ https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/ (for the back: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/?disk=back https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/?disk=back) Also, interesting they used Google Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ https://www.google.com/get/noto/
lawless123 10y ago
>Despite the rough life my prototype has had, we do recommend reasonable care. It is probably best to wear it as a pendant, or in some way that it doesn't get rough treatment (for example, I wouldn't recommend keeping it on a keychain). It's 1000 dollars .. i wouldn't let it leave the house.
- huangc10 10y ago
  1000 dollars isn't that bad for a necklace right? What about wedding rings for example.
  - m_t 10y ago
    $1000 is a already a very expensive necklace.
- viggity 10y ago
  The pendant isn't $1000. The pendant is like $40. The donation to the foundation is the remainder
adrianN 10y ago
I'd buy one, but not for a thousand bucks. If they truly want wide dissemination they need to bring the price down by at least on order of magnitude.
- stuaxo 10y ago
  With any luck that will be the next goal.
- StavrosK 10y ago
  Who's going to sift through the absolute mountains of crap with pretty pictures on them we've produced to discover the thing with the invisible lettering, long after languages have been forgotten?
  - adrianN 10y ago
    Historians.
gravypod 10y ago
What kind of lithography is involved with this?
agumonkey 10y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360 The tiny rosetta is cool, but I'll keep my neck DVDRW in the mean time, thanks.
StavrosK 10y ago
I had a look at the actual pages and they're pretty bad, Greek is listed as "Ekari-Drabbe" (what the hell is that?) and many languages have unicode symbol encoding errors (e.g. words like "?akke").
- FroshKiller 10y ago
  Ekari is an Indonesian language, and Drabbe is an author of a Dutch book on the language, so I assume Ekari-Drabbe refers to the transliteration of the spoken Ekari language to the Dutch (English-ish) alphabet according to Drabbe's method. This is probably an off-by-one error. The ISO 639-3 code for Ekari is ekg, and modern Greek's code is ell. I don't know where you found this on the disk, but you should contact the project with the details and let them know so they can correct it.

78 points by mmastrac 10y ago

bArray 10y ago

It would be nice to have an electronic version. What interface would truly stand the test of time?

johanvts 10y ago
There is an electronic version on the web-page.

imode 10y ago

this is fascinating. I wonder if you could do something a tad larger for things like mathematics and logic. I'd buy that. a wearable reference that you can use with optical magnification.

pbhjpbhj 10y ago
Then all you need is a special contact lens and you can cheat in exams!

huangc10 10y ago

Link to interactive web version here: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/ https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/ (for the back: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/?disk=back https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/?disk=back) Also, interesting they used Google Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ https://www.google.com/get/noto/

lawless123 10y ago

>Despite the rough life my prototype has had, we do recommend reasonable care. It is probably best to wear it as a pendant, or in some way that it doesn't get rough treatment (for example, I wouldn't recommend keeping it on a keychain). It's 1000 dollars .. i wouldn't let it leave the house.

huangc10 10y ago
1000 dollars isn't that bad for a necklace right? What about wedding rings for example.
- m_t 10y ago
  $1000 is a already a very expensive necklace.
viggity 10y ago
The pendant isn't $1000. The pendant is like $40. The donation to the foundation is the remainder

adrianN 10y ago

I'd buy one, but not for a thousand bucks. If they truly want wide dissemination they need to bring the price down by at least on order of magnitude.

stuaxo 10y ago
With any luck that will be the next goal.
StavrosK 10y ago
Who's going to sift through the absolute mountains of crap with pretty pictures on them we've produced to discover the thing with the invisible lettering, long after languages have been forgotten?
- adrianN 10y ago
  Historians.

gravypod 10y ago

What kind of lithography is involved with this?

agumonkey 10y ago

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360 The tiny rosetta is cool, but I'll keep my neck DVDRW in the mean time, thanks.

StavrosK 10y ago

I had a look at the actual pages and they're pretty bad, Greek is listed as "Ekari-Drabbe" (what the hell is that?) and many languages have unicode symbol encoding errors (e.g. words like "?akke").

FroshKiller 10y ago
Ekari is an Indonesian language, and Drabbe is an author of a Dutch book on the language, so I assume Ekari-Drabbe refers to the transliteration of the spoken Ekari language to the Dutch (English-ish) alphabet according to Drabbe's method. This is probably an off-by-one error. The ISO 639-3 code for Ekari is ekg, and modern Greek's code is ell. I don't know where you found this on the disk, but you should contact the project with the details and let them know so they can correct it.