Science of Speech

Tech isn’t all fun and games, music and movies, but even beyond simple consumers and into the scientific break throughs of the future it’s still very cool.

The Neuralynx System is a design meant to feed into the brain and translate thought into speech. The system connects to neurons and then communicates with a laptop that produces spoken words from the signals. By connecting electrodes into the brain and transmitting the signals picked up by FM radio. The apparatus was recently tested on a paralyzed 26 year old and it worked.

Visual Translation

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is translation it seems. Japan’s NEC has begun work on a Tele Scouter system, an eye piece with a camera and microphone set up to capture conversations (in foreign languages presumably) and send back the translation for your eye to read.

A small computer is also needed (worn about the waist) to transmit the microphone pic up to a larger computer that would send back the translation. Currently the system is still in the process of being fully functional, but NEC also hopes it can transmit other information, like tech specs to engineers on site verses in the office. It doesn’t look too attractive as a head set at the moment, but the concept is awesome.

Speak!

So, for now, it only translates in Japanese, but I think that just makes it all that much more amusing. Tomy has released a new dog translator, the Bowlingual Voice.

You heard correct, a collar that will translate your dog’s barks into plain English (well, Japanese for now anyway). It’s a new addition (the old addition didn’t have the recorded human voice capability) and claims to be able to decipher six different doggy emotions for over 50 breeds of dogs.

The handheld controller features an action dictionary, to further decipher a dog’s mood, as well as a dog quiz, and doggy scheduler. I mean, obviously I’ll have to wait for an English version, but what a kick it would be at parties.