Thread: New toy time!

Originally Posted by Kanati8869

And it has another app demo installed that will translate what you write into other languages and speak it in that language for you over it's built in speaker. So you are in china and need to get out of jail for being falsely imprisoned for espionage? Write it down and the pen will translate your pleas of innocence into mandarin.

I'd be careful with that one... anyone who has ever tried using something like babelfish knows the woes of using text translators. The phases often do not come out quite like you intend them.

For example, here is The Preamble thrown through babelfish.

The original preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Taken through Korean and Spanish.

The population of the United States, is more perfect in order to form 1 little more the union which, we establish a process, we believed firmly a domestic constant temperature, us the direction which is general is a vigor grudge, [1] the material which is general is promoted, blessing which freedom and our next generation is identical, believes firmly this constitution for United States of America and orders establishes.

or

Me with the flag of United States of United States the republic which it stops, in the nation all for a loyalty, in freedom and process, it promised in the shoes lower part it will be able to divide c.

I think we can agree the preamble has very little to do with the shoe's lower part's ability to divide C.

Originally Posted by QuickLightning

I think we can agree the preamble has very little to do with the shoe's lower part's ability to divide C.

True, but I can think of a certain Iraqi journalist who would find it very interesting

Google Wave's rosey etta translation bot to be fair though, is quite good.