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The first thing you’ll say is “Picard to Enterprise”

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Or possibly “Sisko to Ops”, depending on the specific cut of your anorak. But you will think Star Trek when you see this, exactly the way you did when you first saw a flip phone. This is a Starfleet communicator available and working now – if you live in the USA. Doubtlessly it will come to the UK, hopefully it will slim down a lot, quietly I fancy it in a Starfleet badge design and, oh, I preferred it when I was being all serious productivity with you.

The fat Starfleet Communicator – sorry, the Onyx OnBeep – only on sale in the USA and costs $99. See the official site for details.

Microsoft plans Star Trek-style universal translator

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Captain Kirk’s flip communicator, check

The USS Enterprise’s warp engines, nope

Transporters, nope

Tablet computers, check

Universal Translator – maybe

In Star Trek, it looks like this:

In the real world, it may yet look like this:

Disclose.tv – Microsoft has invented a working universal translator

That’s from Disclose.tv which shows Microsoft Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrating speech recognition. We have a lot of that and some of it is very good, but this one aims to recognise the speech and then speak it back in another language. We’re a few years away from it being on our phones, but.