Every once in a while, I get to review a gadget that amazes me. When you read the description, you think, “wow, this can’t possibly work,” and when it does work, you swear it must be magic. I’ve been ...

When traveling, AI translators are still more cumbersome than the universal language of pointing fingers and Googling.

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Need to communicate with someone who speaks a different language? You can fire up Google Translate or other translation apps on your phone and start talking. But a startup called Travis thinks there ...

Many of us have wanderlust, but traveling to a foreign country can be quite scary. The biggest barrier to travel is unfamiliarity with the local language. Luckily, you don’t need to spend months ...

Vormor is a professional handheld translation device that supports scanning & voice translation for 112 languages. Launch via Kickstarter this month. The Vormor tech scanner and real-time voice ...

The Coast Guard is getting handheld voice-to-text translators. The Silicon Valley Innovation Program, run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, has awarded Phase ...

With dozens of languages spoken in Los Angeles, police sometimes have trouble being understood. But a new hand-held device called the Phraselator has eased the communication gap. An officer merely ...

OWEGO, N.Y. -- If U.S. troops soon storm into Iraq, they'll be counting on computerized language translators to help with everything from interrogating prisoners to locating chemical weapons caches.

Every once in a while, I get to review a gadget that amazes me. When you read the description, you think, "wow, this can't possibly work," and when it does work, you swear it must be magic. I've been ...

TL;DR: As of Oct. 9, you can get the NEWYES Scan Reader Pen 3 Text-to-Speech OCR Multilingual Translator for just $124.99 instead of $199 — that's a 37% discount. Traveling can be intimidating, ...