Dictionary...

Guess what is this?

It's an electronic Chinese dictionary by Creative Technologies that is approved by the Singapore Examination & Assessment Board (SEAB) for use in CL composition examination. This means students no longer have to lug along a thick dictionary to the examination hall and frantically flipped through the pages to look for a word. All they have to do now, is to press a few buttons... and bingo, the words would appear before them on the little b&w screen. It'll read out to you if you do not know the pronunication... Recommended for those who're learning Mandarin cos' it's cheap (didi bought it at $25.20 in school; outside maybe more expensive - not sure).

Hmm... no doubt it's a good use of the cheap existing technology but I wonder if kids are being pampered too much nowadays and I wonder if subsequent generations will know what to do when thrown a 'paper' dictionary?