Saturday, May 05, 2007

New Toy

This week, I ordered a new toy off of the internet. It's an iRiver D26. That is an electronic dictionary. It is the top of the line here in Korea. It is really meant for Koreans learning English and Japanese. It has the normal Korea-English, English-Korean dictionaries. It also has Korean-Korean, and English-Enlgish. There's an English usage dictionary, English idioms.

As if that isn't enough, it also serves as a PDA, keeping your calendar and address book and all of that. It also serves as an Ebook reader, and an electronic photo album. It even has an mp3 player.


My favorite function is something called "brain vitamin." You pick the mood you're in, and it will play the appropriate soothing elevator type music. Pretty interesting.


The machine is all in Korean, but most of it is easy to understand. The good news is that the support software for it is in English, so I had no trouble loading my music onto the device.


It may be an extravagant purchase, but it has already come in very handy.


1 comment:

Helios said...

hey, does it have wifi...?

when liz was at Tanglewood, a girl that was there from japan had one of those things or something like it, a translator...but i don't think it had all the bells and whistles like your thing there...liz liked to play with it...they would type stuff back and forth into it...it was a Hello Kitty one....