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05-17-2016, 10:13 PM
Pilot earbuds are like a real life, language-translating babel fish
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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 fish you stick in your ear that eats other people's brainwaves and excretes a translation into your mind.
We don't have a mythical fish like this on Earth though, so Waverly Labs (http://www.waverlylabs.com/) made their own version of it: the Pilot.
SEE ALSO: Adele's 'Hello' mangled by Google Translate is bizarrely brilliant (http://mashable.com/2016/02/19/adele-hello-google-translate/)
The Pilot is the world's first language-translating earpiece. It works in pairs, meaning you wear one earpiece and the person you're speaking with wears the other. From there, your speech will be translated almost immediately to the other wearer's language, which they'll hear in their earpiece. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/pilot-translate/)
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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 fish you stick in your ear that eats other people's brainwaves and excretes a translation into your mind.
We don't have a mythical fish like this on Earth though, so Waverly Labs (http://www.waverlylabs.com/) made their own version of it: the Pilot.
SEE ALSO: Adele's 'Hello' mangled by Google Translate is bizarrely brilliant (http://mashable.com/2016/02/19/adele-hello-google-translate/)
The Pilot is the world's first language-translating earpiece. It works in pairs, meaning you wear one earpiece and the person you're speaking with wears the other. From there, your speech will be translated almost immediately to the other wearer's language, which they'll hear in their earpiece. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/pilot-translate/)
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