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» Google's Babel Fish

When I first saw augmented reality apps the first thought was: phwoar! That looks like the future! Cool. No longer are we going to be saddo, 20th century loser n00bs. We’ve got the awesome stuff, like a real live episode of Star Trek, only with better graphics and less space. This is in that category - a service that does in-conversation translation, like Douglas Adam’s immortal Babel Fish that sits in the ear and automatically translates. By marrying Google Voice to their existing and in-development translation software Google executives say a live version could be ready in just a few years. Please, please do this and vindicate all my shameful laziness in not learning other languages. Please.