06-08-2003, 07:20 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Pocket PCs And Foreign-Language Signs
"The same camera you use to take pictures of an Italian vineyard may help you find a 'toletta' several glasses of wine later, if Hewlett-Packard has its way. Researchers in Hewlett-Packard's labs have developed their own method of pairing a digital camera and computing device to translate signs and text in a foreign language back into English. The technology, a software applet running on an Hewlett-Packard iPaq PDA, will hopefully form the foundation for an eventual product, researchers said."
Pair this with smart glasses, and you'd potentially have a killer translation combo long-term.
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06-08-2003, 09:05 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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I've actually seen this in action, although it was an IBM project, using an off the shelf E125 and the CF camera (I forget which one, wasn't there a Casio one?) using a Bluetooth laptop and a sign in Japanese. Very cool to see in action.
I also got a chance to check out the IBM project, forget the name, where the entire PC is in a handheld device, and can be plugged in anywhere, and the Linux wristwatch (he was actually controlling his PowerPoint presentation from it)
Very cool stuff indeed.
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