Frequent flyers will probably go for beam-me-down technology or that elusive flying car, but universal language translation would probably be pretty high up most people’s lists too. And unlike food ...

From Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, anyone who spends much time forecasting the future comes to realize that language has simply got to go. In ...

In the 90s, the commercial was inescapable: Muzzy, the fuzzy, green, foreign language-teaching beast, speaks in French. The scene cuts to a girl watching the BBC video course. “Je suis la jeune fille, ...

Language is an integral part of culture, intrinsically linked to one’s formative years, and often additional markers such as interpersonal relationships, views and beliefs. Given its ubiquitous uses, ...

Australian start-up, Lingmo International, has brought us one step closer to the science-fiction dream of a universal translator earpiece. The Translate One2One, powered by IBM Watson artificial ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new language translation device that can be used in real time," said an inventor, from Las Vegas, Nev., "so I invented the EAR BUD ...

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 Timekettle Fluentalk T1 Translator Device is a well-built language translator that allows you to convert foreign text by verbalizing or photographing it — but you own an alternative already. One ...

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 ...