Windows Phone Thoughts: iPAQ + Camera = Sign Translation

HP has developed a prototype solution based on an iPAQ, a WiFi connection, and a CF camera that can automatically translate signs if you just point the solution at it. It's obviously not ready for primetime, but this may be a cool harbinger of things to come if you could use something like a Smartphone or a Pocket PC Phone with a built-in camera to accomplish the same effect.



"Dr Howard Taub, Director of the Printing and Imaging Research Centre at HP labs in Paolo Alto in California let Go Digital, the BBC World Service radio programme, try out their sign recognition and translation system. The idea is that by using a wireless connection to the internet, the device can be a handy camera which makes use of translation resources on the net."