Handheld USB Scanner Searches Google & Wiki for You

For years we have had desktop and handheld scanners with optical character recognition (OCR) to translate images to words, but how many of them have also had the power to take the translated text and instantly search Google or Wiki? That's right… none! Up until now we have had to strain ourselves and manually go to Google and perform the search ourselves.

Not anymore thanks to the Dixau (warning: Korean). This little handheld scanner lets you take the text that you scan and instantly do the search to find out what it is that you are reading about. While this is primarily intended for use in Korea to aid in translation, this might also be very useful for young children provided it is simple enough to use. Of course you can always do without and do like we did growing up and get the dictionary out to look something up, but that just takes all the fun out of it.

Via OhGizmo!