Sunday, June 19, 2011

New App To Extinguish The Need To Learn A New Language

Picture this: You go on vacation to germany, and your looking for your hotel. Problem is, you don't speak German (hypothetically for those who are German). You come to a big sign that reads "Hotel 30 Kilometer entfernt, am Weg "A" links abbiegen und immer geradeaus." Now how in the world are you going to read that? Most people would most likely try to learn german before this trip, or carry a language guide with them, but think about how long that takes! Well now there is an app to deliver the needs to those weary travelers. This app is called Word Lens. Now what this app does is it translates words inside of images. For example, lets say you take a picture of that sign, and the app would look at it, then change the words to English! Think im kidding? check out this video:


Now this app is acctuly free, but you have to pay to get the languages that you need to be translated. But what would you rather have to do : Learn a language, or spend a couple bucks to let the app do all the work?
You Decide.

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