Word Lens: You Gotta See it to Believe it
By: Hillel Fuld
If this new app, Word Lens, does not convince you that mobile technology is changing the world, well then, I don’t know what will. Word Lens enables you to point your iPhone at a word in a foreign language and it will translate it for you immediately and accurately. Yes, this works and it is not fiction.
The app is now only available for English to Spanish and vice versa, but other languages are on the way.
Take a look at this video and prepare yourself to be blown away. I tried the demo to reverse or make words disappear and it worked a few times and failed me once or twice but that is probably because of the setting in which I used the app.
You can download the demo for free or pay an in app purchase of $4.99 to unlock the full functionality. Pretty astounding technology if you ask me.
