Sometimes, apps come along whose core functionality seems so magical that you feel simply obligated to try them. Word Lens, a free-with-an-asterisk app from Quest Visual, falls precisely in that ...

Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the biggest mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. This week's highlights include test translation service Word Lens and the arrival of the Titanfall companion app.

It's one of the stock sci-fi fantasies: Look at a sign written in another language, and it's instantly translated. And it's here, now. An iPhone app called Word Lens interprets words it sees on signs ...

Word Lens is an app that uses the camera on your iPhone to translate and text you point it at, instantly to the language of your preference. The video makes this thing look great, but once you ...

(Reuters) - Despite the viral nature of YouTube, entrepreneur Otavio Good was still shocked when a video of his mobile translation app, Word Lens, became a social media sensation. "It was overwhelming ...

Google has acquired Quest Visual, the company behind the Word Lens mobile translation application. The app translates printed words from one language to another using a smartphone's camera, without ...

Google Translate just got Word Lens, basically. The new feature in the latest update of the Google Translate app lets you take a picture in-app, and highlight text you want translated from one ...

The Google Translate app for Android lets you translate text from one language to another… but up until now if you wanted to translate text from another app, you had to copy and paste it into Google ...