Now A picture’s worth a thousand words

Author: Babitha

Try hard to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get...

Imagine being in a foreign country staring at a restaurant menu you can’t understand, a waiter impatiently tapping his foot at your tableside. You, a vegetarian, have no idea whether you’re about to order spaghetti with meatballs or veggie pesto. What would you do? Well, eventually you might be able to take out your mobile phone, snap a photo with Google Goggles, and instantly view that menu translated into your language.

Of course, that’s not possible today — but yesterday at the Mobile World Congress Google demonstrated a prototype of Google Goggles that has the power to do just that. It’s still in an extremely early stage, but we thought we’d share this demo with you because it shows just how powerful a smartphone can be when it’s connected to our translation technologies. For more information and to watch the demo, check out the brand-new Google Translate blog.