Sharp's brain-training dictionary

Electronic dictionaries hit the ground at the rate of about two a week in Japan, but Sharp's latest, the PW-A8300, gets a mention for being something of a limo in the fleet: it includes 90 dictionaries, brain-training maths exercises, and mortgage payment and pension calculators, plus an expansion slot for adding additional dictionaries. The puzzling thing is the decision not to go for an accepted memory-card standard and allow you to store text files and custom dictionaries on it, and indeed MP3 files, as Sony has. The price tag also harbours a nasty surprise, at Y47,250 (around $450).

[Via K-Tai Watch (Japanese)]