Linguafoculs

Ever seen text in a foreign language and wished you knew what it said? Sure there are translation websites, but that involves typing the foreign text by hand, not to mention the difficulty factor of those anoying little characters that are part of foreign words and don't show up on keyboards. Oh, and this is all assuming the text is on the internet and not on paper.

For a solution, I introduce to you Linguafoculs™. Linguafoculs™ appear from the outside to be slightly oversized and overtinted reading glasses. But on the inside, much more is going on. Two very small camcorders (one for each eye) submit a mixed view to a PDA (that can easily be storred in ones pocket inconspicuously, with a small head-phone like cord running back up to the glasses). The PDA scans the view only for text, and trashes everything else (keep in mind, these are not seeing glasses, only reading glasses). Once the languages (input and output) are specified, the computer will send the translated text through the two small LCD screens within each eye piece. Of course, it would be set so that as you tilt your head, the text stays in direct line with the text being translated (to give at least a partial sense of where the text is). As an added bonus, the PDA has a USB port and small memory chip to store a few pages worth of translation in .txt format that can easily be hooked up to a computer and printed.