It's a traveler's nightmare: being in a foreign country surrounded by signs in another language and nothing but a guidebook to help you. If only there was a way to have every sign translated in realtime—perhaps in the form of a mini translator gnome in your pocket—so you wouldn't have to look up each word individually. A new iOS app claims to be that gnome: Word Lens by Quest Visual is a new arrival on the App Store, and already has the Internet abuzz by its apparently magical abilities to translate the written word in realtime.
The app itself is "free" on the App Store—the scare quotes are because you can't actually do any language translations without paying for the add-on word packs. So far, the word packs include Spanish to English and English to Spanish, sold separately for $4.99 apiece until the end of the year, when they'll go up to $10. That may seem steep for in-app purchases for each language (I balked at first too), but Word Lens generally does a good enough job that it's worth the money if you're in need of its services.
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