While every interstellar traveler knows that the most massively useful item you can have with you is a towel, placing a Babel Fish in your ear, where it can translate foreign languages for you, is a ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...

Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...

Tucked away in the cavalcade of nonsense and borderline sexism that was the Galaxy S4 launch, Samsung announced a pretty cool feature in its latest flagship phone: built-in translation for nine ...

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...

Yahoo! is offering a variety of translation services with its Babel Fish. You can go to the Babel Fish site to have text translated, download the Yahoo! toolbar and ...

Hundreds of thousands of attendees from every corner of the globe descended upon Las Vegas last week to see the latest and greatest in consumer technology trends. However, with so many people from so ...