The Waverly Labs Pilot is as close as I’ve seen to the Universal Translator I was promised by Star Trek when I was a kid. Two Bluetooth earbuds, one in your ear, one in your other-language-speaking ...

The Babel Fish of Douglas Adams’ dreams may soon be a reality. A company called Waverly Labs is looking to bring a real-time, in-ear language translator to market in September. It’s going to be called ...

Waverly Labs has a lofty goal: to eliminate language barriers with the help of technology. The company's first product, the Pilot translating earpiece, started as an Indiegogo campaign in 2016. Now, ...

Waverly Labs announced this week that it’s hit the $5 million mark for preorders of its futuristic in-ear translator, the Pilot. “The translation process occurs using speech recognition, machine ...

From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Babel fish to Star Trek's universal translator, science fiction has found ways to break down the intergalactic language barriers, but it's something those ...

There are a lot of companies trying to do this. And understandably so. It’s a really cool thing to do — and if someone can really crack it, there’s a lot of money to be made. For a years now, Waverly ...

The world has thousands of languages, each with their own unique structures and rules. In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe, this galactic-scale conundrum is solved with a babel fish, a ...

Have you got an ear for languages? Can you switch between dialects with the same ease as changing the channel? Prepare to change that ‘no’ to a ‘not yet’ as we explore the inner workings of the ...

This small device is designed to translate speech from other languages instantly, so the wearer can understand. Which could be a God send in preventing awkward exchanges abroad – or in situations ...