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sun surfer 06-15-2017 12:44 PM

Well, Willis may have been very wrong about her vision of futuristic telephone service, but it looks like one of her more extravagant ideas may be turning into rudimentary reality:

An Australian startup revealed its flagship product, an earpiece that can interpret 8 different languages in real-time, at a United Nations event in Switzerland on Friday.

I read it and immediately thought of Kivrin's translator, heh.

BenG 06-15-2017 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sun surfer (Post 3537885)
Well, Willis may have been very wrong about her vision of futuristic telephone service,

Hey, it's not 2053 yet! :)


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