Although Word Lens has been around for a few years, the app has somehow slipped under the radar of folks, such as international business travelers, who could most make use of it. The big news right ...

We first covered Word Lens here on BGR all the way back in 2010, and the app is no less incredible today than it was nearly four years ago. The app allows users to view a sign or other printed text ...

Google on Wednesday said that it has updated its Google Translate app to include Word Lens, a technology acquired last year that can read signs in various language and translate them to and from ...

Google has announced that it will shortly be rolling out a new version of its Google Translate iOS app, with two significant enhancements. First, it is replacing the existing camera-based text ...

Google just bought the company behind a smartphone app called Word Lens that visually translates text in real life scenarios right on your device using the camera and some behind-the-scenes ...

Sometimes you just have the need to translate some words. The downside is that sometimes you have no way to translate some words. Whether you be at a swanky french restaurant and have no conceivable ...

Google has bought Quest Visual, the company behind the popular Word Lens translation app. Apple’s most recent iPhone 5s ad featured Word Lens, and rightfully so; it’s one of the most magical tools you ...

When Google acquired Word Lens in May 2014, it was clear that it was only a matter of time until the startup’s impressive visual translation technology would be folded into Translate. That moment is ...

Google has just snapped up one of the most futuristic apps to come along in some time. Quest Visual, the maker of the incredible Word Lens app, posted on its website that it has been acquired by ...

Tourists, and locals who still need the help — like me. I’ve lived in the country for the last three and a half years, and while I can order a drink in a restaurant and catch trains on time, I’m often ...

If you’re traveling beyond the land of your mother tongue, it’s smart and safe (not to mention polite) to have a grasp of the basic building blocks of a foreign language -- the simple words and ...

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 ...