Copy Machine That Translates Japanese Into English
Remember when you were a kid, and the future's promise of a photocopier that could translate from one language to another actually seemed like a remote possibility? Guess what.
The braintrust over at Fuji Xerox has developed a photocopier that scans articles in Japanese newspapers and magazines, and then spits them back out in English, Korean, or Chinese (or the other way around), all while actually retaining the layout and formatting of the original source material.
Of course, tools like Babelfish has been doing this sort of thing for years (with rather mixed results, we might add), but the paper-on-paper action over at Fuji has us pretty excited.
P.S .- Getting excited about a copy machine is a pretty weird feeling. Okay, it passed.
From PopGadget
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