Once per month we will discuss a great potential new innovation. Today to start the serie we will talk about the mobile app Word Lens. For $10 you can access an English-Spanish (vice versa) translator on your cellphone. Trough scanning, a smartphone camera can access this app with no need for Internet or Wi-Fi connections.
New languages are coming soon, such as French.
The owner of the start-up (Otavio Good) received many takeovers offers. He has sold his previous start-ups in video games (Secret Levels) for $15M to SEGA in 2006.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
A blog on the convergence of info-communications industries: communications, computing, electronics, entertainment, publications and education. Strategic, technological and financial analysis. English and French blog. Cette chronique traite de l’évolution des industries de l’information et des communications et couvre des aspects stratégiques, technologiques et financiers, comme l’économie du savoir et de l’innovation. L’auteur est Associé principal de Infocom Intelligence.
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