Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Business ThinkTank No.6, Kanji Air Reader

As I stay in Japan, coping with the dizzy unknown Kanji everyday. I have one adds-on installed over FireFox browser, called Rikaichan. This useful plugin will help me read and translate the unfamiliar Kanji by moving a mouse pointer to the Kanji target.

If I could combine this idea with mobile gadget, how wonderful it is? I just open my camera mode in the cell phone and glare at the Kanji object. On the mobile's screen, the Hiragana and translation display in front of my eyesight. If succeed, it can extend to other languages. But sophisticated technology is a must like Image Processing, and avalanche of dictionary database.

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