Translation via text message
Making it even easier for American tourists to never have bother learning the language, there's a new service called LingoPhone that does translation via text message. Just enter in the full text (in syntactically correct English) that you want to translate to French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Portugese and hit send. For a mere €0.20/$0.24 per translation (pre-pay) it'll send you back the results in the language of your choice. To sweeten the deal they're including a new trial service - enter in any question about any place in the world (again, in complete, correct English) and LingoPhone will check it against the CIA World Factbook to give you an answer. We spent a lot of time trying to get answers from the CIA demo, but all we ever got was blank looks and no answers - maybe you'll have better luck. At least they're keeping with the CIA's tradition of secrecy.
[Via SmartMobs]
