Visual babelfish

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 21:35:00 -0400
/technology

Nice to see progress on the visual/text babelfish coming along nicely. When finished I want this overlaid in real-time on my glasses.

Researchers in Hewlett-Packard’s labs have developed their own method of pairing a digital camera and computing device to translate signs and text in a foreign language back into English. The technology, a software applet running on an Hewlett-Packard iPaq PDA, will hopefully form the foundation for an eventual product, researchers said.

via gizmodo