Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 10:48am
During a recent company presentation, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son made a claim to a piece of technology that already appears to be a part of the Google Glass feature set.
translation stories
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 10:44am
By seamlessly translating spoken audio into another language in near real-time, Google's Translate app for the iPhone comes close to giving you a pocket-sized universal translation device. And it's free.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:52pm
Translation is tricky enough, but an app that turns your spoken English into Spanish in real-time? It sounds like something out of Star Trek, and that's exactly what the Jibbigo app for the iPhone claims to do. We tried it...
Monday, April 13, 2009 - 3:03pm
UK-based acoustics engineer John Reid has been working on a machine for a decade that may be able to translate dolphin talk in much the same way that we decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. Called the Cymascope, the device analyzes the noises...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 11:51am
It looks a bit like the memory eraser used in Men in Black, but the Sign Language Interpreter is nothing to fear. It's a concept by designer Mac Funamizu, and the locket-sized device would, in a perfect world, be able...
