I keep thinking of these little ideas every now and then. Thought it will be a good idea to share them on my blog and also archive them to track how much I imagine! So here goes the first in the Imagination series!
Imagine. A mobile phone application that allows the user to click a text snippet as a picture, analyze the language and allow translation options. I imagined this while having popcorn yesterday. The Act II pack has instructions in three languages but I was wondering how someone who only knew Kannada for example would be able to make out anything. With an application like this, all the end-user will need to do is click a picture of any text snippet (there will be some bordering options maybe) and voila, you’ll know what it means! How handy will this be for electronics purchased from Singapore that typically only come with Chinese/Japanese instruction booklets!
Maybe such a device already exists. I’ll like to know.
on May 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Mobile translation softwares definitely exist but nothing of the sorts you mentioned I guess… In all of the existing ones, you gotta type the text in order to translate it… It is a very good concept I think… why don’t you go ahead, work on the idea and try and create such a software and then we can sell it to the mobile manufacturers… what say?!
on May 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Oh by the way… here it is… so you need not bother… http://wireless.sys-con.com/read/519605.htm
on May 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I don’t have the skillset to do it. Don’t have the money to sponsor it. And no VC will give me money without me knowing anything about it! So I guess the best that can happen is that someone whacks the idea from this page!