Mr. SEAN LANAHAN (SpeechGear): I am demonstrating a language translation device at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.
If the answer is no (as some insist), then the mind may well contain the moral analogue of the Language Acquisition Device.
The device has two English language and four translation dictionaries built-in and provides up to two months battery life(with wireless off) and 2GB of storage.
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The design language of the device is simple, clean and, frankly, not too far off from the previous nano.
"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.
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SwiftKey is a London-based technology company that makes money from selling its app on Google Play for Android, and from licensing its language-prediction technology to device manufacturers like Samsung.
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For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.
Dragon TV is Nuance's unique voice and natural language understanding platform designed specifically for smart TV, device and set-top box OEMs and service operators.
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"We see a lot of potential in mobile learning and believe that language learning should be optimized and offered on any mobile device, " says Markus Witte, managing director of Babbel.com.
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Key to the data transformation is the Extensible Stylesheet Language, which provides information to identify what type of device is requesting information and what kind of network it is running on.
Unfortunately the sheer size of the Xperia T means that the design language Sony had used on their previous high-end Android device, the Xperia S (reviewed here on Forbes), has been lost.
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While still going through the typically painfully slow standardization process, one of the promises of HTML5 (hypertext markup language) is it could greatly simplify the process of porting apps from one type of device to another.
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As you'd expect, this 10.1-inch Android 4.1 tablet features the same design language as its smartphone counterpart, but it's what's inside that really sells this device: a Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, a 10.1-inch 1, 920 x 1, 200 screen (with Mobile Bravia Engine 2), an 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera, NFC, LTE (MDM9215M radio), microSD expansion and Sony's very own "S-Force" virtual surround sound technology.
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