Is this real?

1188 points · 46 comments

submitted 12 years ago

46 Comments

submitattach picture

EpiDot · 59 points · 12 years ago

or is this just fantasy

panthymonic · 35 points · 12 years ago

Potatoe.

Jojok3 · 25 points · 12 years ago

No escape from reality

josephsvogar · 25 points · 12 years ago

Caught in a landslide

Zachary · 23 points · 12 years ago

I'm sorry tavitt, it's over

Pedrones · 22 points · 12 years ago

Open your eyes

MudButt20 · 13 points · 12 years ago

Look up to the skies and see!

Lipschitz · 5-Year Club · 11 points · 12 years ago

Even c-c-c-combo break can't stop an internet Bohemian Rhapsody.

PotatoeKitten · 9 points · 12 years ago

*** you :(

gchamon · 7 points · 12 years ago

MAMAA, Life has JUUUUS' beguuuun, and now i think i'vE THROWN IT AAAALL AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

eldarepah · 4 points · 12 years ago

this actually made my day

doctorlolnugget · 1 points · 12 years ago

Carry onnn, carry onnnnnn, as if nothing really matters
.
.
.
.
.

beckahesten · 1 points · 12 years ago

Too late, my time has come

flitzflotzstink · 0 points · 12 years ago

You couldn't just do 1 line like all the others, you had to have 3!
Selfish...

QuedZarit · 7-Year Club · 0 points · 12 years ago

mamaaaaaa HUUUUUUUUUU

Bad comment hidden. Click to view.

evan92 · Casual Poster · -1 points · 12 years ago

congrats

carabaffe · 27 points · 12 years ago

iPhone, now with tardis technology

P3r1nj0 · 8 points · 12 years ago

It's called OCR (optical character recognition), but it's not perfect, sometimes it guesses wrong, and that would screw up translation.. for that reason it needs huge library of terms, and that would make this program quite bulky, not to mention it needs a lot of processing to go trough all the matches ... BUT It's possible, expectantly with phones like galaxy note 2

Fuvity · 1 points · 12 years ago

and don't forget font recognition, letter size variation and irregular line breaking.

andyhl · 7-Year Club · 11 points · 12 years ago

It is real.
What amazes me is that you most people have smartphones with enough processing power to do incredible things, yet they paid 1000$ for scrolling on Facebook.

haijulikani · 9 points · 12 years ago

It is real. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.questvisual.wordlens

zanck · 10-Year Club · 8 points · 12 years ago

TARDIS phone

TheWolf · 6 points · 12 years ago

Yup its real, I use it on my travels :)

Yelahna · 2 points · 12 years ago

I. Want. This.

Fredrik · 2 points · 12 years ago

Pink ale!

dogx · 2 points · 12 years ago

Yes, it's real, but it's still really buggy

cristitm · 1 points · 12 years ago

lolthis · 1 points · 12 years ago

its true but every language is to ***ing expensive

Cshao · 1 points · 12 years ago

this apps called 'word lens'
*fly away*

Kazikian · 1 points · 12 years ago

It's real but it sucks. I just tried it. Nowhere near fluid like on the video; you must wait a good few secs to focus and even then results are awful. This video is totally faked. It's like a demonstration of concept, not the actual tech.

xsn4 · 1 points · 12 years ago

Bing translate actually has this.

Vev060 · 1 points · 12 years ago

QUE BELLEZA
[WHAT A BEAUTY]

megalittleface · 1 points · 12 years ago

I saw something like this on a TED talk :)

Dawnos · 1 points · 12 years ago

Yeah, it's real and it translate like shit.

ChickenWing · 1 points · 12 years ago

It is real, and this is not that impressive technology. What is impressive is that there is people to invest their money in such devices.

ak00s · 3 points · 12 years ago

Ok this could help a lot in for example Japan or Jhina where you can't even read the characters to look them up in a dictionary. This is useful. Altough this graphic reprocessing is superfluous a single character type hud style display would consume less storage space and hardware power.

Delta438 · 1 points · 12 years ago

It's real. It's an app called Word Lens. It's free, but to get Spanish to English you have to do an in-app purchase. Otherwise, all you can do is flip the words in real time.

Metalmusick · 0 points · 12 years ago

Very real, and I've been using it for a while in my windows phone. but I wont be surprise if apple suddenly says its their "brand new technology". here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmvv2UPMiE