According to its developers, Pilot, can translate between English, French, Spanish and Italian in real time and will be available to buyers by the end of this year. The first 100 customers can pre-order their Pilot starting from $129. It’ll be sold as a pack of two earpieces, with prices for early buyers starting at US$150 (RM612.29), and rising to US$299 (RM1,220.50) for the final roll-out.
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Thanks to a new piece of technology, we may be headed towards a time where we don’t have to resort to awkward hand gestures when attempting to communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language.
As of now, not many details are out on how the wearable tech works, other than its use of “translation technology” embedded in the app.
One of the most hard things about traveling to a foreign country is learning to navigate in a different language.
The idea for a little in-ear translator came to entrepreneur Andrew Ochoa when he met a French girl and didn’t know how to speak to her.
Waverly Labs claims that you won’t need a data connection to use Pilot’s translating features, and you’ll also be able to use it as normal earphones and listen to music and other audio with it.
Waverly Labs, a start-up company from Manhattan, New York, is developing a groundbreaking earpiece that can provide near real-time translations of multilingual conversations.
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Though this is pure speculation given that Waverly Labs haven’t announced how the Pilot works, the video unveiling the project seems to hint that this will be the case, depicting one user setting up the app on their smartphone before the translation begins. These additional languages will be accessible for an extra fee, although those who pre-order the gadget will receive them for free.
