YD is a melting pot of varied cultures; we have Asians, Americans, Australians and British in our group. Luckily we all use English otherwise can you fathom the commotion if we all mailed in our respective mother tongues! Funny as it may sound now, language barrier can pose a problem when we can’t communicate effectively with locals on a trip abroad. For vegetarian like me, ordering a chicken dish out of a Chinese language menu would be awful! I’d need something like the ViewTrans to help me out.
Digital translators may not be new to the scene, but what makes ViewTrans different is that it “translates what you see.” As the designer explains, “existing electronic dictionaries are useful only when you can read the letters of the language”, ViewTrans changes the foreign script that it views to your language of choice and displays it on the screen. For example if a Chinese script menu were put in front of me, it would get translated to the English script on the screen display.
Here is how the device works:
1) Choose the language (or the country you are traveling in).
2) View the word you need to translate on the screen.
3) Focus on the words and then hit ‘T’, the translate button.
4) The screen shows the translated word.
Designer: Jaeseok Han
Great idea. I’ve run into those kinds of problems. I want it, haha.
No applause for the form though, thats 100% jacked from the iriver spinn. Boo!
You think a cylinder stuck to a block is a unique design? If you want to go there, then the Spinn stole its design from a number of point-and-shoot cameras.
Indeed, all things considered, I think “camera” is what the designer was going for.
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Concept’s nice, i would have one!
Very innovative.
what software did you use to draw this. pls reply
FLX // Sorry, but the produt I designed is inspired the letter ‘ i ‘ (information). So that you can find i shape easily.
Salkis // Rhinoeros 4.0, with hypershot 🙂
By the time this could become reality it will be an app for the iPhone. Nobody wants to carry another gadget! This is cool software for smart phones, but not so inciting to me as a separate, few hundred dollar item…
i like how it translates chinken soup, but doesn’t translate won
fail.
That is because "chicken soup" is the part being highlighted for translation. Not won.
Fail. =)
^ win
That is because “chicken soup” is the part being highlighted for translation. Not won.
Fail. =)
^ win
I would love to have one of these. Since I only know French and English I need the help in translating the hundreds of other languages.
That is a good idea, but I doubt it is going to be implemented soon.
And, no offense, but you need to work on your english. It looks like you keep throwing out articles like “a” and your subject doesn’t agree with your sentences.
Example:
“language barrier can pose a problem” should be “language barriers can pose problems” or “a language barrier can be problematic”. (you get the picture)
“For vegetarian like me” should be “for a vegetarian like me”.
“otherwise can you fathom the commotion” doesn’t really make sense.
Good luck, you’ll get it someday.
Thank you for the advise. I will be more careful next time.
Actually "otherwise can you fathom the commotion" makes perfect sense…it's just missing a comma after otherwise.
Actually “otherwise can you fathom the commotion” makes perfect sense…it's just missing a comma after otherwise.
universal translator here we come!
This isn’t innovative at all. Cell phones have been doing this for years.
Shame is that foreign languages do not only have one font. How will this “recognize”, say, Cyrillic in a script font???
why dont you make that into an app for a smart phone?
why dont you make that into an app for a smart phone?
my android phone does this with the free google goggles app.
I take a picture of the language, it spits out a translation. and it's a free app.
my android phone does this with the free google goggles app.
I take a picture of the language, it spits out a translation. and it's a free app.
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This is a perfect design fot tourists.