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Dixau Text Scanner Wikifies and
Googlizes Your Reading-
Reading is such hard work without the internet at your disposal to cross
reference anything that you don’t immediately understand. Until now, people had
to read books while at the computer if they wanted to look stuff up, manually
typing it in to Wikipedia or Google. It’s horrible, I know. The Dixau text
scanner from Korean company Unichal makes is so that you only have to be next to
the computer. It contains a little camera that is able to take pictures of text,
recognize the characters, and then provide on-screen explanations via search
engines.
The Dixau may seem totally superfluous (especially for $90), but what I think
it’s designed for are Korean students who want to be able to translate words
from English scientific texts on the fly. And with that in mind, it really could
be useful even for native English speakers trying to decipher English scientific
texts. I mean, I majored in geology, which is perhaps not the most technical of
disciplines, and I still swear that half of those words were made up just to
confuse people.
Dixau from Unichal is a device available on the Korean market designed to help
you understand what you are reading and while you are reading.
If you are in the middle of a study related to medicine or you encounter
specific terms that you are not familiar with, Dixau’s built-in camera captures
the image with the sentence at the push of a button and searches through
Wikipedia, Google or a dictionary you provided it previously.
It then finds the detailed explanations in your PC with the help of text
recognition technology, and reveals them on the monitor. Such a device costs
around $90 and if you understand Korean you might want to check all the details
about it on the official product page.
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