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I’ve always wanted a gadget like Dixau. It can easily copy any text from your hard copy material, like papers, books or magazines, and shift it directly to any laptop. This feature enables people transferring full pages into their computers or just copy a word / line and translate them with online dictionaries. To do so, just drag it down the paper, mark the  desirable section and copy with the built in camera. The text will be displaced onto your screen and will be available to use digitally. Available in Korea for $90, the Dixau can be very useful, specially for students, bloggers and journalists. Having said that, we have no details concerning language support, so you might get stuck with Korean content.

 [via slashgear]

    is a new web service, allowing you to search the internet visually. The company has developed a nice and intuitive search engine that will change the internet navigation and our searching behavior. Like any other search engines, you start by typing the word or inquiry you look for and searchme will offer related categories. Choose any category and the engine will pop up pictures of web pages that answer your search. Just flip between the visual pages and click through. If you need more info, read the short brief at the bottom of the visual results and pick your likable page. Unfortunately, Searchme is a closed beta, but i do hope it will go live ASAP and change the way we search the web. I was lucky to get an invitation and test Searchme, it is new, refreshing and very fast to use. Still, there are many things to improve, like adding more web pages to the engine’s data, increase the size of search results and make them more accurate. Check out the video: