Wouldn’t it be great if a person could communicate in every language spoken on the planet? It would be magnificent if folks could hop to a new destination and get right with the locals. Similarly, if ...

While being bilingual is a highly valuable skill in the professional world and for personal reasons, not everyone is skilled in the task of speaking more than one tongue. At times, it can be a ...

The Timekettle Fluentalk T1 Translator Device is a well-built language translator that allows you to convert foreign text by verbalizing or photographing it — but you own an alternative already. One ...

This pocket translator can translate 76 languages and features a smart voice interpreter for two-way translation. The Mesay 3.0 Pro AI Global Translator is a device designed to make international ...

This slim, lightweight device translates 42 languages and lasts 24 hours on a single charge. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals From Star Trek to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the signs of the ...

Sign Language is definitely a boon to deaf people when it comes to communicating with each other, or with non-deaf people who are trained in the system. If a hearing person doesn’t regularly deal with ...

In The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote of what was “probably the oddest thing in the Universe,” the Babel fish: a small, yellow, leech-like fish that sits in an ear and helps you ...

The Langogo Genesis is a hand-held pocket translator, smaller than a smartphone, that uses noise-cancelling microphones to translate between more than 100 languages, while offering you a 4G Wi-Fi ...

Traveling abroad might be intimidating at first, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. Just a few years ago, if you wanted to talk to someone in another language, you’d either have to spend months ...

Noriyuki Matsuda's idea for a pocket-sized "magical device" that would provide instantaneous translation exceeded the capacity of technology available in 1989. But he continued to plan and work on ...