Perhaps the biggest challenge facing any tourist is the inability to communicate. I think we've all made fools out of ourselves trying to act out "train station," "subway," "potato" or hundreds of other things we desperately need but can't seem to find when exploring foreign lands.
If computer science professor Alex Waibel has his way, this problem will cease to exist within the next decade. The Carnegie Mellon University professor is working on a variety of gadgets which seek to automatically translate the spoken word.
The coolest of the inventions is the yet to be released, translation goggles. This nifty device translates everything strange foreign people are saying to you in strange foreign lands and prints it out on a tiny screen on the glasses for you to read.
This will be a godsend for travelers but also a curse. Now when the locals curse you under their breath for being hloupý, loco or a dummkopf, you will finally understand what they are saying.
Now, dear friends at Carnegie Mellon, how is this going?(Gadling ;)
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