When world leaders get together, they have plenty...  ...ching minor factual errors or slips of the tongue. Translators smooth out cultural differences and often are rel...  ...e principle has said. But woe unto the high-level translator who makes their own errors. Read about the strang...

Don’t send that résumé off yet! First, run it through Kittify. This online application by Daniel Landry turns your words into a series of cat-themed puns and references. Here, for example, is the Gett...

[caption id="attachment_70383" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Photo: EnableTalk"][/caption] Among the finalists at Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a student technology competition, is EnableTalk. These gloves, buil...

Have you ever wanted to have a conversation with your dog or cat? The bad news is that communications with house pets may never be possible, but researchers at the Wild Dolphin Project founded by Denise Herzing have made...

Photo: NEC NEC is developing a gadget that will translate spoken words into text displayed on a user's eyes: The prototype device called a “Tele Scouter” is a glasses type display that translates the foreign la...

This gadget, developed by the Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, will allegedly translate a dog's barks: The gadget can tell you if your dog is sad, joyful, alert to danger, needy, happy or frustrated. The £129 gad...