My Dictionary is Better than Your iPod
![[Image: My Dictionary is Better than an iPod]](http://www.callistonian.net/ima/blogged/dictionary.jpg "Dictionary > iPod")
I know the title sounds crazy, but it’s true. My pint-sized electronic dictionary is mind-boggling; it overwhelms people. It redefines the term dictionary by doing things that no dictionary needs to do. But, hey, I’m not complaining.
Perhaps, you’re thinking, “Come on, you’ve got to be kidding. It’s a dictionary. It’s just an electronic version of one of those brick-sized books that dorks use. What can it do besides look up words? It’s not like you can watch movies or use the Internet with it…”
Actually, I can watch movies with it (mpeg, divX, Xvid, wmv…). It also has a non-jacked up Internet browser. I can get live-streaming TV-quality TV on it too. :P I’m not lying.
First and foremost, though, this thing of mine is a dictionary. So, it has what every dictionary must have, a swiveling touch screen!? The screen can rotate 180 degrees, folding flat on itself. Screen rotation sometimes leads to scribbling which sometimes leads to random image creation …
![[Image: My Dictionary is Better than an iPod]](http://www.callistonian.net/ima/blogged/dictionarywin.gif "Dictionary > iPod 2")
I drew the image to the right, on my dictionary, without installing any applications or modifying its hard/software in anyway.
Moving right along— my dic. has an MP3 player, a calendar, a photo viewer, a radio, a voice recorder, a notepad, a memo pad, a scientific calculator, and converters. It can view PDF files, office documents, text files, and spreadsheets. It can read e-books out loud. It has games, plays flash files, blah blah blah…
All of that stuff is interesting, but by now the cynics must be thinking, “The actual dictionary on this thing must suck” because, well, nothing I’ve mentioned so far has anything to with a dictionary, in the traditional sense of the word. So, let’s go there.
There are lots of dictionaries on my dictionary. I’ve Chinese dictionaries—I don’t even speak Chinese—English dictionaries, Japanese dictionaries, and Korean dictionaries. There are also grammar books, vocabulary builders (i.e. Power Vocab 100,000), other helpful things, and other weird things. Anyway, the dictionaries themselves have all sorts of words in them, as one would expect. But, look at some of the words I found!
![[Image: :-) is in the dictionary]](http://www.callistonian.net/ima/blogged/dicwords.jpg ":-) is in the dictionary")
:-) is in the dictionary. Do you believe it?
At any rate, my dictionary is real. This is not a joke. It’s i-station’s udic. It costs about $50 more than an iPod touch. Some people give their phones, iPods, computers, and other electronic things names. My dictionary needs a name. Any suggestions?
On a final and truly facetious note, my dictionary can be used as a mask. The girl in the photograph below is clearly using it as a mask. Have you ever seen anyone use an iPod as a mask before? I don’t think so… ![[Image: i-station udic]](http://www.callistonian.net/ima/blogged/dicmask.jpg "i-station udic")
That is one cool dictionary, I must admit. My iPod is cheaper, though. ;)
What about Dick – the Dictionary :P
I don’t have an Ipod, that’s something which is last on my list of “will buy when am rich”, but that dictionary looks neat. I’m on the online dictionary day and night right now, seeing my daily language is German but my thesis is English.
Never seen something like that. Nice.
OKAY. I OFFICIALLY WANT ONE OF THOSE!
Whoa. I love it.
Christen it with a Korean name?
Wow, when you mentioned in that other entry that electronic dictionaries could do a lot of things, I didn’t have all this in mind! Those sure are a lot of features. I can’t believe this entry actually made me consider getting one of those! By the way, I loooove dictionaries, but I’m still in the brick-sized-book-dorks-use kind of dictionary. I have loads of them in my bookshelf. But yeah, one that talks you and lets you watch TV sounds so much better. I second Tracy’s name suggestions (lololol).
BTW I could have sworn I left a comment on your “note to self: take photos” entry but nothing shows up now o_O
Oh Gosh, some Koreans in my school have one of those. It’s insane!
LOL! It looks way better as a mask XD
“…my dic. has an MP3 player, a calendar, a photo ….” LOL that made me laugh
I’ve always heard of electronic dictionaries before, but not that kind of electronic dictionaries!
You know… what they should do is add a phone to it. I mean why not, it does just about everything else under the sun. Adding a phone would complete it! Hmm.. a name, I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Wow, that’s such a cool dictionary. Expensive though. The ones I have seen over here don’t seem to have such cool functions and they also keep giving wrong translation for words.
That is neat-o dictionary Speaking of useful-in-Asia-electronic dictionaries, will you give me an address so I can mail you your Japanese electronic dict. The one you loaned me.
Wow, that dictionary has everything! Definitely better than the iPod I don’t have.
I don’t know anyone other than you that has an electronic dictionary D:
Unfortunately, I can’t really help you out in the name department. I think I would name it either Dicky or after one of my favourite TV characters.
That’s awesome.. it’s more like a mini laptop.
And I love dictionaries… well dictionary.com one of my favorite websites. I have it saved right in my toolbar.
Bah. Humbug. Your dictionary IS cooler than my iPod! :(
A Korean girl in my Chinese class actually has one of these, but I don’t know if it’s the same exact model. It seems really useful though; in Chinese class, if there’s a word that she doesn’t know how to pronounce or wants to know how to write a certain character, she can just write the word in the dictionary or the sound and get the characters and meaning.
Me, on the other hand, dictionary-less, I write in the pin yin for words I don’t know and check them up on my computer later.
Wow, amazing. Huh. Now I want a dictionary like that. I mean, why not? I love words as much as you do (since I’m a writer) and this dictionary is AMAZING. You’re right, it IS better than anyone’s iPod.
That’s a DICTIOINARy?! Wow – man I’ve got to get meself one of those babies! <3