The Tower of Babel translator is a prototype translation device that functions in a completely different fashion from existing translators. Rather than having users punch in words on a keypad and then ...

While every interstellar traveler knows that the most massively useful item you can have with you is a towel, placing a Babel Fish in your ear, where it can translate foreign languages for you, is a ...

The long running Babel Fish website language translator feature on Yahoo is now no more. It has been quietly replaced with Microsoft's own Bing Translator system. For people who began using the World ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

Why limit yourself to knowing only one language when you pretend to know many more? That’s what a bunch of U.S. scientists figured when they set about to create a “Tower Of Babel” translator. A series ...

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...

Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...

For nearly a decade, Timekettle has been synonymous with hardware innovation in translation devices, producing tools that help people connect across language barriers. Now, with the launch of Babel OS ...

Scientists have been trying to automatically translate languages for almost as long as computers have been in existence. So why is it so hard? Earlier this year, the Malaysian Ministry of Defence ...