The Quicktionary TS is a helpful hand-held scanning translator featuring an icon-based touchscreen menu and the capability to “scan a word or a full line of text and provide immediate word-by-word translation, including idioms and phrases.”

Most Quicktionary TS products provide audio pronunciation for selected languages. The Quicktionary TS is an ideal tool for anyone in need of multilingual support, such as students, travelers, researchers and business people.

Features:

• Comprehensive translation that extends beyond the simple, most frequently used meaning of the word.
• Direct look-up of idioms/phrases.
• Identification of inflected words and display of their corresponding entries.
• Recognition of over 300,000 words and expressions per dictionary.
• History option enabling retrieval of the last 80 reviewed words.
• Audio word pronunciation with Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology using built-in speaker or earphones (available in most products).
• Recognition of a wide range of printed font types and sizes (6-22 points, up to 8mm) , including inverted text on contrasting backgrounds (except red on white, white on red, blue on black and black on blue).
• Recognition and automatic merging of hyphenated text.
• Two display modes: Toggle between abridged and complete definition/translation display.
• Displays up to 5 lines of text on a high resolution touch-screen.
• Virtual keyboard for manual word insertion or text editing (using the included stylus).
• Auto-complete function when inserting words using the virtual keyboard.
• Interactive games for practicing and enhancing vocabulary using reviewed words list (History) or entire dictionary list (not available in all products).
• Easy to use buttons and straightforward menus.
• Quick and easy navigation using the included stylus.
• Supports various user-interface languages.
• Right/left handed support.
• Auto shut-off feature to preserve battery life.

The Quicktionary TS is available from the Wizcom Technologies website for $189.95.

(Via OhGizmo)

This LED stick lets you display messages in the air. Simple create any message you like on your computer, sync the stick via USB, and start waving.

Customize your messages like “I Love U”, “Sorry!”, or images in JPG/BMP format, install them in the 32-LED Light Show Stick via usb cable. Wave the Light Show stick horizontally, then your message/image will be created in the air by a strip of red LED. Approximate 85 characters can be stored.

Features:

• Built-in 32-LED
• Support BMP and JPG banner creation – max. 128 x 32 pixels size
• 3 Scrolling effects: Marquee, Slider and Top Down
• Text and banner can be uploaded to the Light Show stick by USB interface
• Blue back light feature with 3 flashing method
• Built-in 4096 Bytes memory size – store around 85 Characters
• Powered by 2 x AA batteries
• Suport Windows XP, 2000 and Vista
• Dimension: 295 x 36 x 18mm (approx.)
• Weight: 98g

The USB 32-LED Light Show Stick ($22) is available from USB Brando.

The Livescribe Smart Pen is a useful tool capable of recording audio and text, and then have it transferred to a computer through a USB docking cradle.

At first glance the Smart Pen looks like a very oversized pen and that’s because it contains an ARM processor along with a host of other digital accessories including a built-in speaker, headphone jack and OLED display. While writing, the infrared camera in the tip scans special dot-covered paper at 72 Hertz and records everything you scribble down.

At the same time, users can record audio through two noise cancelling microphones located near the top of the pen. For extra noisy environments, the Livescribe comes with special 3D recording headphones which, according to company reps, can record a whisper from the back of a noisy auditorium. Recorded audio is synchronized to the text for easy playback.

The Livescribe will be available in March in a 1GB ($149) and a 2GB ( $199) model. More information and a couple of videos can be found at TG Daily.

(Via Prylfeber)