Why limit yourself to knowing only one language when you pretend to know many more? That’s what a bunch of U.S. scientists figured when they set about to create a “Tower Of Babel” translator. A series ...

The Tower of Babel translator is a prototype translation device that functions in a completely different fashion from existing translators. Rather than having users punch in words on a keypad and then ...

The long running Babel Fish website language translator feature on Yahoo is now no more. It has been quietly replaced with Microsoft's own Bing Translator system. For people who began using the World ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...

Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...