Unichal unveils portable, pocketable DIXAU DX3 dictionary

At first glance, this looks a tiny bit like a flip phone of yesteryear, sure. Closer inspection, however, will prove it to be... a tiny dictionary! Korean company Unichal's recently shown off its newest pocket dictionary, the DIXAU DX3. This tiny source of knowledge boasts a built-in camera which can scan unknown words and deliver definitions on the front facing stylus-enabled touchscreen. The unit boasts a microSD card for multimedia storage, and is also equipped with the ability to speak back words to you -- in case you really can't be bothered to read them for yourself. It's available now in Korea, and though we doubt it'll ever make its way to the US of A, we'll keep watch for you. There's one more shot after the break.

[jocaju Posted Dec 29th 2009 2:07PM]

I wound buy it.

[Edobe Posted Dec 29th 2009 2:23PM]

@(Unverified) Damn that mean DIXAU DX3. Be sure to clean your wound and bandage it so it doesn;t get infected.

[kikkerland Posted Dec 29th 2009 7:12PM]

@(Unverified)

You 'wound' buy it? Sounds as if you're the target demographic for a dictionary.

[dez Posted Dec 29th 2009 2:12PM]

Could they have chosen a picture that was a bit less odd for the press shots, just maybe?

[jawxx Posted Dec 29th 2009 2:25PM]

The thing is scanning an English page but displaying everything in Japanese. Is this a silly, inexcusable press mistake or does it do translations too?

[Taylor Yes Taylor Posted Dec 29th 2009 3:57PM]

@jawxx It probably does translations. They love that stuff over there. Probably because so much of the world speaks english, they find themselves needing to translate it a lot.
-taylor

[infinityPlusOne Posted Dec 29th 2009 4:12PM]

@jawxx

It's not Japanese. Japanese Kanji rarely uses circles in their characters. I'm pretty sure it's Korean. Also, due to the fact that this is being released in Korea.

[ultimate hot dog Posted Dec 29th 2009 5:04PM]

@jawxx
It's written in Korean and I thought "It's available now in Korea, and though we doubt it'll ever make its way to the US of A" was clear enough of an indication why this photo is the way it is...

[jawxx Posted Dec 29th 2009 5:13PM]

@jawxx It's frickin' Asian-y. Dang, lol. Also, while the product is from Korea may deduce the language on the device (I shouldn't have missed that), it doesn't really, however, explain whether the device is doing a translation in the picture.

[electrobrains Posted Dec 29th 2009 7:35PM]

@jawxx
Look at the screen. It's an easily-recognizable dictionary entry layout with the word "content" both under the camera-stalk and at the top of the screen.

[Saja Posted Dec 29th 2009 8:43PM]

@jawxx

first of all, that isn't japanese. that's korean.

and yes it is doing a translation, of the word "content"

if you look that little swivel thing at the top probably houses the scanner - which is scanning the world on the page "content"

anyway, i still like dedicated keyboards for dictionaries. having been abroad learning japanese, and being a korean speaker, and also needing eng-eng dictionaries, i still love my casio ex-word over this - any day of the week.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2009 2:25PM]

Does it do on the fly translation...?
ie. I speak something and it takes my speach to text then translates? That would be cool. Otherwise, meh.

[joelaf Posted Dec 29th 2009 3:24PM]

@(Unverified)

On the fly translates to near your zipper. Japanese hands near my zipper? Uhm, I'll take one to begin with.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2009 3:57PM]

@joelaf
Wah Wah Wah...lame

[bolezhinkov Posted Dec 29th 2009 3:06PM]

I don't think its doing as much as you'd think . . . it can probably just look up a word and give its definition in any of the languages it knows.

[BigD145 Posted Dec 29th 2009 4:48PM]

I like it. It saves you the trouble of having a touchscreen keyboard with 10,000 characters.

[youtubeline Posted Dec 29th 2009 5:00PM]

At first glance, this looks a tiny bit like a flip phone of yesteryear, sure