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Google has filed paperwork with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a mysterious new media player device, leading to widespread speculation that a successor to the ill-fated Nexus Q may be forthcoming. But if that's true, what's with the Douglas Adams references? The paperwork, published on the FCC's site on …

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  1. Tom 35

    Maybe

    It is powered by the infinite improbability drive.

    It will allow you to stream high quality, original Hollywood movies, for a reasonable price, available anywhere in the world at the same time.

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    1. Anomalous Cowturd
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      Re: Maybe

      In your dreams, son. Only in your dreams.

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    2. Steven Roper
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      Re: Maybe

      "It will allow you to stream high quality, original Hollywood movies, for a reasonable price, available anywhere in the world at the same time."

      No, it will come with a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation GPP that will explain, in appropriately dulcet tones, that while it would normally be delighted to provide such a service for you, it regretfully advises that copyright law prevents it from providing said service in your country, apologises for the inconvenience, and provides you with a substitute that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the Hollywood movie you were looking for.

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  2. sisk
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    H=Hitchhiker

    840=a harmonic of 42 by some creative math (8, 4 in the 2nd position [4*2], 0 to indicate the position of the factor in the string)

    No doubt it will come with at app, the icon for which will be a thumb, to flag down passing spaceships.

    (Yes, yes, I know, I'm trying too hard. My only excuse is it's Monday.)

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    1. ashdav
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      As a possible explanation for the significance of the number 42 see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk

      Watch 48.00 to 49.15

      Mr R.P. Feynman, you've got to love him.

      As an aside I've had the "Don't Panic" wallpaper on my S2 for nearly 2yrs,

      Yes I do have a life,

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  3. Martin 71 Silver badge
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    Or it's an electronic guidebook

    Connected to the HHG offices via ... something improbable?

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  4. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

    And next

    H840 revision 2 would shorten nicely to "Hate 42".

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  5. Jason Hindle

    "– though, in true Wikipedia fashion, that "wisdom" often proved fairly dubious."

    What? Is El Reg saying we are not mostly harmless?

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Well, if Google were to sell its own take on the HHGG

    I for one would buy it - but only if it had "Don't Panic" on the cover, and contained the kind of apocryphal misinformation that would make Wikipedia look like the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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  7. Tom 35

    But

    Will it come with a towel?

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  8. stuartnz

    A new Google Mantra?

    No longer "Don't Be Evil", now just "SHARE AND ENJOY", perhaps? (Only the top half, of course)

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