The most advanced translation tool is smart lenses automatically show subtitles when they speak foreign words or phrases.
The machine-created by the high-tech company NEC-is similar to glasses but instead of lenses has a tiny projector that presents the images on the retina of the user.
The company produced a version that uses a real-time translation displaying subtitles when conducting a conversation between two people without a common language.
According to NEC, the lenses created far Tele Scouter baptized, are a business tool that can help the sales staff to receive, in the retina of your eye-registration information on customer purchases during a conversation.
But the device may also have uses more "exotic" such as assisting in the translation of words.
"These lenses have a microphone that picks up the voices of two people in conversation," the BBC said Don DePalma. technology expert.
"Subsequently transferred to the translation software and systems for voice to text and then sends the translated text to the retinas of each individual in the language of each person using the device.
While the user receives the information in the retina can hear the translation in your headphones.
According to NEC the device could be very useful in confidential conversations that do not want to use a human translator.
As DePalma notes, progress is a prime example as if we all want, ie, overcome the language barrier. "
"And now being achieved with spectacles that enable people to overcome this inability to speak a foreign language," he adds.
The system, says the company, is compact and lightweight so it can be used comfortably for long periods and use a lot of battery.
But there is still some time to have a pair of glasses that if we lost in a foreign country, we automatically translate the directions we are given.
For the moment, are still in Tele protitipo Scouter.
The company expects to launch in Japan in November 2010, but initially will be the enterprise version and will not have translation capabilities.
It is expected that lenses with ready translation capacity in 2011. The bad news is that may not be available to everyone.
It is expected that a set of 30 devices costing about 7.5 billion yen, about U.S. $ 83,000 dollars. And the cost does not include the price of translation tools, or software.
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