Digital Cube's i-station UDIC gets hands-on treatment

One thing's for sure about Digital Cube's i-station UDIC: it's not your mother's electronic dictionary. Boasting a full (albeit tiny) QWERTY keyboard and a unique swivel screen, the HDD-packin' device could easily be mistook for a miniature UMPC (a convertible one, at that). Just in case you've forgotten, it also features a 4.3-inch display, text-to-speech support and an Alchemy AU 1250 CPU. Pricing has been set for ?398,000 ($396) / ?448,000 ($446) in the Korean market for the 30GB / 60GB editions, and you can check out a video of some spicy hands-on action in the read link below.

[Via SlashGear]

[stefan @ Apr 30th 2008 6:22AM]

I like this look... it's ugly yet incredibly nerdy.

[silverblackvoid @ Apr 30th 2008 2:09PM]

nerdy true but ugly not

[Tadas Simokaitis @ Apr 30th 2008 6:47AM]

Fugly. The keyboard looks like it's really had to use...

[bob @ Apr 30th 2008 6:59AM]

wow, they took the keyboard off my 1980's electronic diary

[ChrisR @ Apr 30th 2008 1:48PM]

I was thinking ZX81 as soon as I seen the picture

[enrique @ Apr 30th 2008 7:32AM]

The flattening is a movement related to high-end technologies. ¿Do you have any information on this? I think the student who started it lives in US and has recently published a bestseller. Thank you...

[itsjim @ May 2nd 2008 5:23AM]

could you be a little bit more specific? I'm sure flattening is interesting, but I would like to know something more about it and about this popular book you say. When I hear of flattening I imagine one of this new techies movements... any other suggestion?

[bob e @ Apr 30th 2008 7:53AM]

Looks like she is running Vista

[Flashpoint @ Apr 30th 2008 8:19AM]

its a cool device but, the markets are so flooded with crap nowadays that this thing will be forgotten soon.



I remember when I was in HS how the Korean/ Chinese kids had these and were allowed to use them during tests - and I remembered how they used them to cheat.

Fortunately, test centers woke up and banned both electronic "devices" and cellular phones to prevent accessing internet data in the classroom.

In my classroom, I actually set up a cellular/ wifi jammer (courtesy of Ebay) to keep my students from texting and getting to the internet during tests.

Best thing is, since I control the technology budget - the school financed it !

[blah @ Apr 30th 2008 8:43AM]

Korean / Chinese???? Flashpoint, don't lump Koreans in with those "lowly Chinese" cuz they are different each other more than you thought and it's a big insult for the Koreans. Okay? Thanx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ymvgut4Bo (Guide to East Asians)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ3oyo-irJ4 (Asian Car Comparisons)

[Todd @ Apr 30th 2008 9:26AM]

That form factor is super double awesome - add a HSPA radio, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and Android and you have got THE best gadget evah!

[Wiigee @ Apr 30th 2008 10:49AM]

Any option for us Dvorak (or any nonQWERTY) users?
can it run Linux? either way ill take one!! think it beats the EEE PC!

[Fruition @ Apr 30th 2008 10:52AM]

UDIC? I'd immediately want to pronounce that as "you dick" and as a result I don't think I can take this product seriously. I'm that immature.

[Ace b @ Apr 30th 2008 9:36PM]

Dude,that made my day/nite

[LJW @ Apr 30th 2008 11:39AM]

It certainly could be MISTAKEN.

[ishism @ Apr 30th 2008 1:46PM]

Pandora Knockoff, before it even releases??

[Matthew C @ Apr 30th 2008 10:09PM]

Sexy OS, but ugly keyboard- those plastic-covered buttons really such.

[Andrew @ May 4th 2008 12:56AM]

pause at :23 they make a weird remark about apple

[MeryC @ May 27th 2008 6:12AM]

I've finally found the website where you can find everything about flattening!!! www.flattening.tv