Merriam Webster USB Dictionary and Thesaurus

First it was the talking pen/calculator, now this? Reading about the Merriam Webster USB Dictionary and Thesaurus only makes me think of one question – “Where was this when I was doing my thesis?”. Doing my thesis was an ultimate test of your vocabulary – you wouldn’t want repeating the same terms over and over again, so you’d have to think of synonyms or other terms. The annoying part is that most of the time, the terms are right on the tip of your tongue, you just can’t remember it. This is where this contraption is going to be really handy.

So you need not carry a bulky dictionary/thesaurus with you all the time, because you have the Franklin distributed Merriam Webster USB Dictionary and Thesaurus. This one is a 256MB flash drive that contains the Webster’s digital dictionary with 300,000 words and an accompanying thesaurus with 500,000 words.

A portion of the drive is also allocated for other pre-loaded software programs such as phonetic spell correction, a grammar guide and confusable function alerts – a facility by which the software will alert the user if he might have mistaken similar sounding words (e.g bore and boar). The remaining memory can be used for normal data storage – the specification doesn’t say how much of the memory is left, though. Will work well with people who misspell words a lot. Priced at roughly $50 bucks.

Via EverythingUSB

First it was the talking pen/calculator, now this? Reading about the Merriam Webster USB Dictionary and Thesaurus only makes me think of one question – “Where was this when I was doing my thesis?”. Doing my thesis was an ultimate test of your vocabulary – you wouldn’t want repeating the same terms over and over again, so you’d have to think of synonyms or other terms. The annoying part is that most of the time, the terms are right on the tip of your tongue, you just can’t remember it. This is where this contraption is going to be really handy.

So you need not carry a bulky dictionary/thesaurus with you all the time, because you have the Franklin distributed Merriam Webster USB Dictionary and Thesaurus. This one is a 256MB flash drive that contains the Webster’s digital dictionary with 300,000 words and an accompanying thesaurus with 500,000 words.

A portion of the drive is also allocated for other pre-loaded software programs such as phonetic spell correction, a grammar guide and confusable function alerts – a facility by which the software will alert the user if he might have mistaken similar sounding words (e.g bore and boar). The remaining memory can be used for normal data storage – the specification doesn’t say how much of the memory is left, though. Will work well with people who misspell words a lot. Priced at roughly $50 bucks.

Via EverythingUSB