Celestron SkyScout Answers "What Star Is That?"
It will likely be insanely expensive (it incoporates optics, a small computer, a GPS, and additional sensors) and it might not even work, but the SkyScout is an insanely great idea for a product.
With it you can just look at a star or other sky object and it will tell you about it using both text and audio or you can reverse the process, picking the object you are interested in from a built in list of several thousand and the SkyScope will guide you to it. USB connectivity and the ability to take memory cards (SD format) allow it to be updated and expanded.