Phones to Serve as Doctor, Translator

Samsung president Lee Ki-tae has put forward his view of where mobile phones are going, including telemedication with handsets that send information on things like blood pressure or diabetes count to doctors so they can prescribe treatment as well as interactive TV marketing…”If a viewer is interested in the clothes worn by a certain character in a soap opera, the viewer can simply push a button and receive the information about the clothes”.
However, most interesting is this idea: “A 4G device would act as a simultaneous interpreter. The 4G device should break down communication barriers by providing translation and interpretation functions”…He added that a function for recognizing various sign languages and converting them into spoken language will also be introduced.”
I hadn’t thought about that, but it’s a logical extension now that so many mobiles have video cameras…(via Textually)
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