Wearable translation device promises a science-fiction future, almost

A company called Waverly Labs is working on a wearable translation device that has captured people's imaginations, generated plenty of buzz, andraised over 3 million on Indiegogo. That two people wearing earpieces made by the company could speak in different languages, and with the earpieces working in conjunction with a smartphone app, each person could hear a translation in their preferred language in their ear. For example, one person could speak Spanish, and the other would hear it as English in his ear, and vice versa. The idea is undoubtedly exciting to anyone who has felt the limits of a language barrier. And a video that the company posted that demonstrates the device in action, translating between English and French, has been viewed over 280,000 times.