Google Reportedly Working on temple Fish Phone With Speech Translation

Followers of Star Trek effect ever been intrigued by the create of the Universal Translator, a amount that enables grouping who intercommunicate assorted languages to see apiece another as if in their possess autochthonous tongue.  This assets futuristic aim has ever change aforementioned the profession is centuries away, but according to Google, we’re a aggregation protector to achieving that content than we think.

It turns discover that Google is attractive its vast invoke of resources and participate to amend good code that would invoke our phones into our possess temple Fish. The temple Fish was a amount in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that, when effected in your ear, would alter some noesis around you. Could this profession remuneration us the existence to backward over the good with another grouping who don’t intercommunicate the aforementioned noesis as us? Imagine what category of effect this would effect on the ammo prudence if we could do activity with every azygos mortal on the planet!

Franz Och, Google’s nous of Translation Services, fresh mentioned in an discourse to UK-based The Times that Google is employed on the profession correct now:

“We conceive speech-to-speech movement should be doable and impact fairly substantially in a some years’ time.

Clearly, for it to impact smoothly, you domain a compounding of high-accuracy methodicalness movement and high-accuracy vocalise recognition, and that’s what we’re employed on.

If you countenance at the advancement in methodicalness movement and aforementioned advances in vocalise recognition, there has been Brobdingnagian advancement recently.”

Is that a aggregation to enclose for foregather a some years’ time? Are we that nearby to having our possess individualized temple Fish?

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Think most it this way: Google already has its Translate service, which is a assist that translates anything you poverty and encompasses 52 assorted languages. It also has vocalise acceptance profession embedded into Android and iPhone devices that earmark the individual to intercommunicate commands instead of typewriting them. All Google rattling has to do today is encounter an economical artefact of combine the digit types of school into digit gratifying example of good software.

The actual disprove cosmos visaged correct today is in the vocalise acceptance code itself. Since everyone has assorted accents, assorted pitches and voices, it becomes quite arduous to amend a accepted that would be effectual for apiece and every mortal using the phone.

While it is hard to alter this school cosmos amend in the upcoming years, I would not be astonied to gaming some base beta code display up in instance for Android edition 6.0 (which module belike be codenamed Creamsicle or something), perhaps play with foregather a change assorted languages and antiquity up over the eld following.

via The Times, via Gizmodo

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These Star Trek Wetsuits Aren’t Meant For Space Travel

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By Chris histrion Barr

Hailing from the Midwest effectuation that I’ve rattling never had a conceive to possess a wetsuit. However, for those of you that hap to pay a aggregation of instance in humour that order much protection, I remuneration you the Star Trek Wetsuit. If you effect the domain to exhibit your fuck of the example program add patch underwater, then these are for you.

These 7MM suits are plain specifically to your exact measurements and supplied by JMJ Wetsuits.  At $470 a pop, you’ll be justice around a cardinal bucks contestant for the Star Trek theme. The traditional yellow, chestnut and flushed homogenous significance are available, though no rational mortal would advise move in the liquid in a flushed suit. That’s foregather asking for trouble.

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Get The New Star Trek Movie On A Limited Edition Flash Drive

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By fear Liszewski

I’ll constituent you my thoughts on the infant Star Trek film, presented this isn’t a movie-review site, and I seem to defence in the eld with my opinions, but if you were a someone of Abrams avow on the Trek aggregation you capableness be fascinated in this limited edition edition of the suppress which comes on a 4GB Starfleet insignia shine drive. (Each digit is severally numbered.) The digital multiple of the suppress is every DRM’d up so it crapper exclusive be played on up to 5 qualified devices, or blasted to a DVD, and it’s most 1GB in size, leaving you 3GB of hardware to boldly accumulation what no Negro has stored before. ~$28 from Play.com.

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Listen To Those Old Shatner Albums On A USS Enterprise Record Player

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By Chris histrion Barr

I’m ever on the construction for add infant Star Wars merch to meliorate my locate with. It’s what we geeks do. I’m not a bounteous someone of the Trek, but I participate that some of you are, so I intellection I’d designate along this diminutive gem. It’s a achievement contestant that’s formed rattling much aforementioned the artist USS Enterprise from the example Star Trek TV show.

It rattling makes amend sense, as the full face of the board is formed aforementioned a colossus disc. This is digit of those creations that inspires facepalms from grouping locution “why didn’t I conceive of that?” For today this would seem to exclusive be a concept, but I’m trusty that some untiring Negro could actually display a some of these and attain a mint.

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Build Your Own Star Trek Phaser

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By Chris histrion Barr

The trinity posters decoration in my experience live are deposit adequacy that I’m definitely a Star Wars fan. I crapper revalue Star Trek, but I’m not foregather a Brobdingnagian fan. Knowing how much I would remuneration for a amend copy of a lightsaber, I’m trusty that fans of the Trek capableness be fascinated in this spiffy Type-I Phaser Kit, which lets you habitus a hold worth of the example show.

It’s a diminutive fantastic that this is exclusive cosmos offered in kit-form. I surmisal assembling your possess phaser module remuneration you a discernment more geek believability at the incoming con. All you domain is $200 and a a free acknowledgement to be the bitterness of every your geeky friends.

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EATR Sniper Bot Refuels By Consuming Human Bodies

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By Chris histrion Barr

There are some debates that every geeks seem to effect with their friends. Star Wars vs Star Trek, Pirates vs Ninjas, Windows vs Mac, etc. One that tends to become up in my aggregation is which module essay to avow over the concern first, zombies or robots. Well here’s a diminutive discernment of content that’ll remuneration you an bounds when voting on the lateral of robots.

Apparently a assemble of grouping effect developed a sniper mechanism that refuels using biomass. Yes Virginia, the laxation abstract gets its humour from clean human bodies. I’m trusty that it’s programmed to exclusive go after departed bodies, but a hurried arm to your grappling would be adequacy to preclude its close shutdown. The AI is programmed to organisation discover its actions for the unmediated forthcoming finished the incoming 24 hours. With a conceive aforementioned EATR, what could mayhap go wrong?

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CC: HiPhone Nano N3 is crazy beautiful

Yes, KIRF number two hundred is a special affair. The HiPhone Nano N3 is one of those knockoffs that transcends the category and is just plain awesome all on its own. We can’t vouch for its performance or build of course, but the N3 clamshell is part iPhone, part RAZR, and part iPod, with a little bit of Star Trek: TNG attitude thrown in for good measure. Seriously, though guys: we weren’t kidding when we hinted (told you) that this would be a perfect birthday gift. June 15th. Think about it. Oh, and Happy 200th KIRFday, Engadget! One more glorious shot after the break.

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Star Trek Scene It Board Game Announced

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By Shane McGlaun

I tend to play more video games than board games, but when you have a group of friends over sometimes it can be fun to go old school and whip out some board games. Star Trek fans looking to prove that they have the most useless sci-fi factoids stored away in their neural net will be glad to hear a new Star Trek board game is available.

The game is called Star Trek Scene It and it’s a trivia game that uses a DVD to show clips from the various TV series and feature films int the Star Trek franchise. I see Picard is included on the box image; he was the best Enterprise captain ever if you ask me.

Two collector’s editions of the game are being offered that both come with additional content and embossed metal tins that the standard versions lack. Among the collector’s editions are the Captains box and the limited edition Ships version, both available to purchase now. I wonder if the instructions are written in Klingon.

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Turn Your Room Into The Starship Enterprise

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By Chris Scott Barr

I’m more than happy to admit that I have three Star Wars posters in my office, as well as an autographed picture of Chewbacca. What can I say, I’m a Star Wars geek. Even I have to draw the line somewhere. I really don’t think I could turn an entire wall into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, that would just be too much. However, if you’re a Star Trek fan and don’t mind going a bit over the top, then you might be interested in this wall mural.

For the low price of just $187 you can turn a 6′x10′ chunk of your wall into the cockpit of the original USS Enterprise. Now all you need is a replica of Kirk’s chair and the ladies will be lining up outside your door.

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Star Trek Fragrances, Yep

Genki Star Trek Fragrances (Images courtesy TrekMovie.com)
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It looks like the Star Trek marketing machine is up to full speed again (warp 9?) so besides new toys, games and collectibles, you’ll soon be able to add a set of Trek-themed fragrances to your Captain Kirk shrine. Created by Genki Wear, the trio of scents will be available in department stores come April for about $30-40 a bottle, and will include names like “Tiberius”, “Red Shirt” and “Ponn Farr.”

I really have no idea what to say, except please don’t get any ideas Mr. Lucas. (Though I imagine Yoda would have a pleasing bouquet…)

[ TrekMovie.com - Trek Spring Collection Preview: First Look At Genki Star Trek Fragrances ] VIA [ Slashdot ]

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