babel fish | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com Ian Bell's opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ian Bell Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:35:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/ianbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-electron-man.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 babel fish | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com 32 32 28174588 iPhone translator: Thank you, Captain Kirk https://ianbell.com/2009/07/08/iphone-translator-thank-you-captain-kirk/ https://ianbell.com/2009/07/08/iphone-translator-thank-you-captain-kirk/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:28:04 +0000 https://ianbell.com/?p=4831 It doesn’t have the convenience of a Babel Fish, but this is about as close as we can get with modern technology.  Sakhr, a company specializing in English/Arabic translation which serves such clients as the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security, has revealed a demo for an application you can’t yet have.  Like most of our other innovations these days, the app has eery overtones of Star Trek technology:  specifically the Universal Translator in this case … which just goes to further prove that indeed William Shatner invented the modern world.

… but here’s the rub.  It’s just a demo.  You can’t have it.  Sorry.

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