LCARS Wikipedia

LCARS Wikipedia for iPad

Turn your iPad into a true 24th century LCARS Library Computer Access terminal with LCARS Wikipedia for iPad. LCARS Wikipedia has been created from the ground up to present Wikipedia articles in a genuine LCARS Interface using LCARS animated text display and authentic LCARS sounds and text.


Article Summary Mode

Tap the Article Summary button to put LCARS Wikipedia in Article Summary Mode where all headings and sub headings will be listed in genuine LCARS style. Tap any of the headings to jump directly to the LCARS page number for the currently displayed article. To switch back to the article tap the Article Summary button again to toggle the current article.

LCARS Keyboard

A genuine LCARS style qwerty keyboard has been created to add to the LCARS look and feel when performing a Wikipedia article search. The LCARS Keyboard also uses LCARS sounds when tapping each of the keys.

Animated Text Display

As each Wikipedia article is presented in the genuine LCARS style, the text is animated onto the display with associated LCARS sounds as each word trickles down the display. Tap the Next Page or Previous Page buttons to see this effect for each page in the Wikipedia article.

Authentic LCARS Sounds

When performing a Wikipedia search using LCARS Wikipedia, each of the LCARS sounds that can be heard as soon as the Engage button is pressed tell you what is happening at each stage of the LCARS article search progress from data retrieval to parsing and finally to display. Different LCARS sounds are presented to indicate each stage of this process. As a result when searching for Wikipedia articles the timing of the LCARS sounds are unique each time.