[/caption]Your smart phone will has become even more usefull than it already is. An iPhone app that was released a few days ago called Word Lens allows you to translate foreign words on the go. How, you might ask? Well, you just point your phone's camera at a sign written in a different language and it translates it for you.
In the few days that this app has been on the market, it has already become widely popular. It is free to download and comes with a free language pack for translations between English and Spanish. However, each additional language pack will cost you $5. That's still not very expensive considering the time and money it can save you.
The creator of the application, Otavior Good, said in a video on the company website, "A few years ago I was in another country, and there was a sign I couldn't read and I thought, 'Why doesn't my cellphone do this?'"
"So I decided to make a translator."
This led up to the app that will allow travelers to easily know what signs are talking about, and not have to rely on translation books that may or may not help you along. With this app you just point your camera at it and you're good to go.
The accuracy of the technology hasn't been thoroughly proven, but it should be sufficient to get you along easily enough.
I'm sure that this app will gain millions of downloads and will lead to similar technologies being developed.
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