Idea: BusinessWeek recently published an article chalking out cellphone revolution. Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts "a huge revolution" in the way cellphones are being used by various people. It started me thinking. What if your phone could do on-the-fly language translation for you? Now, you don't have to worry about honing your foreign language skills. If you're an effective speaker in your language, your are an effective speaker everywhere. Cellphone being such a universal device is always going to be with you. We already have facilities like text-to-speech and language translation. To achieve on-the-fly language translation in phones, we would just need to combine these two technologies, and you will become a polyglot immediately.
Reward: No more "lost in translation"
Bonus: Douglas Adams' soul can rest in peace when we'll have a babel fish in our pockets.
Reward: No more "lost in translation"
Bonus: Douglas Adams' soul can rest in peace when we'll have a babel fish in our pockets.
2 comments:
What kind of technology is required for this? Cell phone size will be the same after adopting such technology?
Cellphone size is a concern, but with ever increasing transistors on the chip, I am sure we will be able to afford this at some point. Look at Motorola's first cellphone for example, which was way bigger in size and way dumber in functionalities compared to super slick Moto Razr.
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