{"id":3749,"date":"2014-12-22T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2014-12-22T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:02:26","slug":"word-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Word Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is always cool. Sometimes, it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.questvisual.wordlens.demo&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Word Lens<\/a> is one of those amazing technologies that you have to see to believe. It takes translating dictionaries one step further &#8212; by recognizing words in the wild, using your Android smartphone&#8217;s camera, and seamlessly replacing them with the translation. If I hadn&#8217;t tried it for myself, I would have suspected that the demo videos are rigged. It does what it claims, though &#8212; even translating labels from Russian into English.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe now I&#8217;ll be able to figure out how to start that old <a href=\"http:\/\/flyawaysimulation.com\/downloads\/files\/21338\/fsx-tupolev-tu-154m\/\" target=\"_blank\">TU-154M<\/a>\u00a0I downloaded.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2OfQdYrHRs?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be seeing a lot more of Augmented Reality &#8212; and soon, I&#8217;d guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word Lens is an Android-based Augmented Reality app that can translate text on the fly, using the camera. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=3749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,381,278,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-reviews","category-tools","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}