Mobile phones as translation devices with built in FM radio
July 30, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Accessories
Two words for this: practical technology! Yesterday, I had come from a get together in a room with over 3,000 people all of whom spoke English, Spanish and the vernacular – Filipino (Philippines). Here’s the thing: the get together was with someone who spoke Italian and very little English.
A week before the get together, the organizers announced that all attendees should bring in mobile phones with FM radio built into the hardware and should tune in during the get together to various stations for English, Spanish and the local dialect real time translations. Here’s another great example of how …read more
