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Most of us have found ourselves in the awkward situation of trying to communicate in a foreign language. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s embarrassing. And sometimes it’s downright disastrous. But thanks to a new translation device that easily fits into your ear, the days of struggling to speak the local lingo might soon be a thing of the past.
The device is called The Pilot translator system and Waverly Labs is the company behind this brilliantly simple yet potentially groundbreaking ear translator idea. When it hits the shelves in September, the system will allow the wearer to understand one of several foreign languages through real-time in-ear translation. A handy real-time translator app will allow you to toggle through the languages you want, and the selection includes French, Spanish, Italian, and English. It’ll retail for $129, and you can pre-order your own translator device here. Or you can just keep talking to people really loudly and slowly in English. Good luck with that.
More info on this ingenious language translator device: Waverly Labs (h/t)
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The gadget comprises two earpieces that easily fit into your ears
It will allow real-time in-ear translations in French, Spanish, Italian, and English
“The Pilot” will hit the shelves in September and retail for $129
The device is said to translate speech like the Babelfish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
A handy app will allow you to toggle through the languages you want
The creator says he came up with the idea when he met a French girl. Here’s how it works in action:
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John Cooper 9 years ago
Hope they do a yorkshire one soon as our lass dunt av a clue wot im on bout half the time
Devon Frohne 9 years ago
I do think that we have a lot of un-documented cultural slangs in languages, and it is important to learn them, however I think this a very wonderful idea, and piece of kit for any traveler. How it will pick up some crazy accents when siri can barely understand "send a text to bob" I don't know.
Nick Girard 9 years ago
That's a cheap, limited, cloud-based solution. A local solution would be much better.
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Carolyn Wolfe 9 years ago
And the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy used one too! So long and thanks for all the Fish!
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andrevartania 9 years ago
Babel fish "The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix."[7] It is a universal translator that neatly crosses the language divide between any species. The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore it both proves and disproves the existence of God:
U.N. Owhen 3 years ago
You've GOT to be autistic. If not, then your parents kept you chained in room, and you've never actually interacted with REAL people (typing c**p here is NOT 'real' - it's actually VERY...sad.) Just as William Shatner said in an early, and very well-known SNL skit, which takes place at a Star Trek convention, after politely listening for a few minutes, he's hit by the inanity, and says, 'habe any of you ever kissed a girl?!?' Humour aside, I've come across a few like you, and there's NO way you're not - maybe you've not been diagnosed, but you ARE (and NOT that 'a*s-burger' b******t, which isn't anything more than shy, loner-type kids, and foolish parents, who think there's 'something wrong' with them 🤬) autistic. Not trying to be 'mean' to you, but, you're not 'connected' correctly . Seeing a professional could only help you. Go to: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbdd/autism/treatment.html.
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Darlene Luckins 9 years ago
I hope the translations are correct. Ever try to translate something through an online translator when you know the other language fairly well? They mess up almost every time.
Mike Seebeck 9 years ago
Hopefully upgrades will include Russian, Japanese, Hindi, Portugese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. And for the Trekkies, Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan, and Ferengi. ????
John Cooper 9 years ago
Hope they do a yorkshire one soon as our lass dunt av a clue wot im on bout half the time
Devon Frohne 9 years ago
I do think that we have a lot of un-documented cultural slangs in languages, and it is important to learn them, however I think this a very wonderful idea, and piece of kit for any traveler. How it will pick up some crazy accents when siri can barely understand "send a text to bob" I don't know.
Nick Girard 9 years ago
That's a cheap, limited, cloud-based solution. A local solution would be much better.
Load More Replies... Carolyn Wolfe 9 years ago
And the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy used one too! So long and thanks for all the Fish!
Load More Replies... andrevartania 9 years ago
Babel fish "The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix."[7] It is a universal translator that neatly crosses the language divide between any species. The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore it both proves and disproves the existence of God:
U.N. Owhen 3 years ago
You've GOT to be autistic. If not, then your parents kept you chained in room, and you've never actually interacted with REAL people (typing c**p here is NOT 'real' - it's actually VERY...sad.) Just as William Shatner said in an early, and very well-known SNL skit, which takes place at a Star Trek convention, after politely listening for a few minutes, he's hit by the inanity, and says, 'habe any of you ever kissed a girl?!?' Humour aside, I've come across a few like you, and there's NO way you're not - maybe you've not been diagnosed, but you ARE (and NOT that 'a*s-burger' b******t, which isn't anything more than shy, loner-type kids, and foolish parents, who think there's 'something wrong' with them 🤬) autistic. Not trying to be 'mean' to you, but, you're not 'connected' correctly . Seeing a professional could only help you. Go to: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbdd/autism/treatment.html.
Load More Replies... Darlene Luckins 9 years ago
I hope the translations are correct. Ever try to translate something through an online translator when you know the other language fairly well? They mess up almost every time.
Mike Seebeck 9 years ago
Hopefully upgrades will include Russian, Japanese, Hindi, Portugese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. And for the Trekkies, Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan, and Ferengi. ????
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