Google Goggles App Translates the Real World, So You Can Remain Monolingual Forever

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Google Goggles is an Android app that's part augmented reality, part scanner. Use it to take a picture of a product in a store, a barcode, album art, or lots of other things, and it'll look it up and offer links to shopping sites, Wikipedia, and Google Search results. It's very cool, even if sometimes the total incompetence of my Droid's camera makes it tough for Goggles to know what I'm pointing at. But Google just added a huge new feature to Goggles--on the fly translation.

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