All three of the above can be found in the murky world of the tattoo parlour. A professional translation service recently launched a "Think Before You Ink" campaign to cut down the number of terrible tattoo travesties. One man wanted to show the world how "awesome" but he ended up "awsome" instead. A young lad […]

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Google is developing a mobile phone that can act as an interpreter.  Google says its device will speech to speech translation almost instantly.  The good news for me is that language experts believe the prospect of such technology supplanting the ability to speak a foreign tongue is a distant one. David Crystal, honorary professor of […]

Hi-Tech firm NEC has invented a pair of specs that can provide subtitles. They look a bit like space-age glasses, but there are no lenses, instead a tiny projector projects images to the user's retina. The idea is to provide real-time translation for conversations between people who speak different languages. It's all very Star Trek […]