If you travel a bit, or are planning to then this unique 12 language portable electronic translator could be the best guide you could get. The portable, pocket translator can translate over 27,000 phrases and 2,40,000 words from and into any one of the 12 languages, which include English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

The eight line backlight LCD shows the word or phrase, phonetic pronounciation and then speaks the word or the phrase in the language you select. The pocket translator also converts currencies from and to eight currencies including Euros, metric and imperial measurements like pounds, kgs, cms and features a calculator, calendar, address/phonebook  and few games. It's available for US$ 199.95 from here .