From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel fish to Star Trek's universal translator, science fiction has found ways to break down the intergalactic language barriers, but it's something those ...

Waverly Labs is crowdfunding a purportedly forthcoming "Pilot" earpiece to translate spoken language in real time and facilitate communication between individuals separated by a language barrier. What ...

Pilot earbuds translate among 15 different languages, listening to the person in front of you and speaking the translation right into your ear. They come in a pair, so you can offer one to the other ...

Ever wished you were fluent in about a billion languages? Yeah, me too. Luckily, amazing new technology like the in-ear Pilot translator translates conversations right when you're having them. Yes, it ...

The universal translator has long been a piece of technology present in sci-fi shows, the most memorable one being Star Trek. Now, thanks to New York-based startup Waverly Labs, a real-life version is ...

Whenever I’m traveling to a country that speaks a different language, I always try and learn a few phrases in advance and convince myself that I’m a natural. However, that notion usually comes ...

Have you ever been lost, needed to use the restroom, or wanted to order a drink in a foreign country, but did not speak the native language? You may never need to struggle with language illiteracy ...

The world has thousands of languages, each with their own unique structures and rules. In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe, this galactic-scale conundrum is solved with a babel fish, a ...

Now that the internet has connected roughly 40 percent of the world’s population, one of the biggest barriers still standing in the way of international communication is language, but that could soon ...