Flutterby™! :

Okay, we'll just call this Frank day at Flutterby: Catching up on my mail, he also passed along the Wizcom Quicktionary Pen Scanner/Translator: ...a hand-held OCR scanner that instantly translates the texts of several different languages (we're offering the English-French, English-German, English-Italian, and English-Spanish editions). All you have to do is run the hand-held Quicktionary across the word in question, and up pops its translation, definition, and phonetics on the LCD screen. After browsing back through Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels I'm thinking I need to read some Rabelais, and I'm wondering if I should get one of these and try it in the original...