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Many of us have wanderlust, but traveling to a foreign country can be quite scary. The biggest barrier to travel is unfamiliarity with the local language. Luckily, you don’t need to spend months ...

January 12, 2007 The barriers between cultures that create fear, mistrust and conflict seem to be dissolving – first distance and now language is going the same way as the Berlin Wall. At CES, ...

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The VoxTec Phraselator may be the closest thing we have to Star Trek's universal translator. The one-pound PDA-like device picks up what the speaker is saying via a built-in microphone and translates ...