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20081014 Tuesday October 14, 2008

Turn your Java ME tech-enabled phone into a translator

Did you ever want to have a universal translator in your pocket? Something that is sort of like the leech-like Babel Fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, which you stick in your ear to understand anything said to you in any language.

Well something like that exists today via Java ME technology on your cell phone.

See:

Java ME tech-enabled Babel Fish

Here's a quote: 

 Lonely Planet, known for its 
 travel guides, said it’s developing 
 audio phrasebooks for Java-enabled 
 mobile phones.
 ...
 So far, software is available for 
 converting English phrases into 
 Cantonese, Czech, French, German, 
 Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, 
 Thai and Vietnamese.
Hold on. I don't understand you. Let me get my Java ME tech-enabled cell phone and figure out what "¡Java ME es la leche!" means... Hope it's not bad...

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