Technology is always cool. Sometimes, it’s amazing.
Word Lens is one of those amazing technologies that you have to see to believe. It takes translating dictionaries one step further — by recognizing words in the wild, using your Android smartphone’s camera, and seamlessly replacing them with the translation. If I hadn’t tried it for myself, I would have suspected that the demo videos are rigged. It does what it claims, though — even translating labels from Russian into English.
Maybe now I’ll be able to figure out how to start that old TU-154M I downloaded.
We’ll be seeing a lot more of Augmented Reality — and soon, I’d guess.
