From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel fish to Star Trek's universal translator, science fiction has found ways to break down the intergalactic language barriers, but it's something those ...

Google is turning a long promised sci fi idea into something travelers can actually use: real time AI translation that lives in your headphones and on your phone, not in a distant lab. Instead of ...

Breaking down those communication barriers may be a much quicker process than previously anticipated if Timekettle’s WT2 prove to be everything we hope they are. These earbuds aren’t meant for playing ...

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Traveling overseas and being understood is much easier now that we have smartphones. I often use my iPhone’s translator app to make myself understood. I can even photograph a notice and have my phone ...

This summer the TC team took a brief trip to Shenzhen, where I met Wells Tu, whose company TimeKettle has made an earpiece that translates spoken Chinese to English and vice versa in near real time.

Now that the internet has connected roughly 40 percent of the world’s population, one of the biggest barriers still standing in the way of international communication is language, but that could soon ...

The recent news of German start-up Bragi leaving the consumer hardware business -- which likely meant an end to its ambitious true wireless earbuds, the Dash -- was unfortunate. I admired the ...