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Rosetta Wearable Disk

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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").

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.

Link to interactive web version here: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/ (for the back: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/interactive/?disk=back)

Also, interesting they used Google Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/

>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.

1000 dollars isn't that bad for a necklace right? What about wedding rings for example.

$1000 is a already a very expensive necklace.

The pendant isn't $1000. The pendant is like $40. The donation to the foundation is the remainder

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

There is an electronic version on the web-page.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

The tiny rosetta is cool, but I'll keep my neck DVDRW in the mean time, thanks.

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.

With any luck that will be the next goal.

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?

Historians.

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.

Then all you need is a special contact lens and you can cheat in exams!

What kind of lithography is involved with this?

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