Dictionary 6 in 1 with Camera Function is no ordinary dictionary; it transforms your Nintendo DSi into a unique language tool. Enter a word by hand, or simply snap a photo of it, to receive an instant translation. Nintendo.

Just take a photo of a word – sounds brilliant – still I wonder how well it works – we’ve only got a DS which hasn’t a camera so I can’t try it out – I’ve looked for some reviews but nothing doing yet.

Looking for something different for you next holiday?

The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you’re looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you’ll find them. Atlas Obscura.

Still I don’t expect anyone in their right minds rushing to Downtown Hotel, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada to try their Sourtoe Cocktail.

Established in 1973, the Sourtoe Cocktail has become a Dawson City tradition. The original rules were that the toe must be placed in a beer glass full of champagne, and that the toe must touch the drinker’s lips during the consumption of the alcohol before he or she can claim to be a true Sourtoer. The rules have changed in the past twenty-seven years. The Sourtoe can be had with any drink now (even ones that aren’t alcoholic), but one rule remains the same. The drinker’s lips must touch the toe. “You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow– But the lips have gotta touch the toe.”

The Sourtoes are actual human toes that have been dehydrated and preserved in salt. Swallowing one is not suggested. Sourtoe Cocktail Club.

There’s no mention of sourtoe in Dawson City’s Wikipedia entry – to be honest it’s probably and elaborate hoax and I’ve no intention of travelling to Dawson to check.

But then again you never know – here’s a YouTube Video

Fake or real? You’ll have to visit.

Hat Tip: Very Short List

Google have made tentative steps into the world of travel with the launch of Google City Tours. The site generates suggested itineraries for thousands of destinations around the world, and allows users to customise their schedules according to how many days they are visiting, and what they want to see. Benji Lanyado, The Guardian.

Currently it’s a Labs project which means there’s plenty of work needed but it’s simple to use and as others have stated the best thing is

The way it uses Google Maps to figure out which locations are closest to each other. Rather than simply present a list of places Google thinks you might want to check out, the site will logically order them according to where they’re located, minimizing the travel time between each. Jason Kincaid, Tech Crunch.

It does take much imagination to see where this is going with Google linking City Tours to a raft of useful information such as concert and sports listings. Keep an eye on City Tours it has great potential.