Prototype: Tell Schweineschnitzel from Schweinemagen with this PDA.
Posted 07.30.2002 at 4:37 pm 0 Comments

Photograph by John B. Carnett Photograph by John B. Carnett

Don't know your Schweineschnitzel (steak) from your Schweinemagen (pig's stomach)? IBM's menu and street-sign translator may prevent a culinary catastrophe. The prototype is a PDA with a clip-on camera. Pictures are sent wirelessly to an IBM server, characters identified, and text sent back. Not the best way to read Molire, but it does translate the basics with few errors. The device could be available in two years.

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