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World Lens: iPhone app instantly translates text through your phone’s camera

Posted 21 Dec 2010 in technology

Amazing new app for iPhone. This would be invaluable for world travelers! Or English-speaking Americans in Miami.

A new iPhone app lets you translate words and phrases from Spanish to English simply by holding up your phone to a piece of paper, a sign or an advertisement.

“It’s elegant,” said one of the early users of “World Lens.” “You have to see it to believe it.”

It’s almost spooky how well and how quickly the app works.

“World Lens” blends the omnipresent catchword of the smartphone set, “augmented” reality, with the kind of technology that used to only exist in science fiction shows.

While the app is free, it doesn’t do much until you pay $4.99 for the translation part of it.

For now, it’s available for Spanish to English and English to Spanish translations. It’s also only available on the iPhone, but that will likely change.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
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