One step closer to the Star Trek Universal Translator?

One step closer to the Star Trek Universal Translator (that thing that makes countless aliens speak English)? Condé Nast Traveler is running a feature on Bragi’s wireless DashPro earpiece that helps translates spoken conversation. It is still, however, not at a level of having your own personal UN instant translator: The earphone will need to sync with a translation app on the phone, which will read out a translation of what you said in a language of your preference. The phone will then relay the response to the earpiece in your language. While we are excited at the prospect of the end of clueless travelling, translation technology has historically not been that great. But we’ll definitely be eying developments there (watch, runtime: 1:15).