Finland has sent a strong delegation of mobile startups to Mobile World Congress this week. Among them isLucSens, a company working in the rapidly developing mobile translation space.
I met founder Iulian Florea, who demoed the company’sJapan Gogglesapp for iPhone for me. Similar to Google Goggles and Word Lens, the app allows you to translate text captured by your phone’s camera into English. However, not only does this handle Japanese (unlike Google’s app), this works entirely without any need for an Internet connection.
LucSens, which also offers a version of the app forChinese, is concentrating solely on east Asian languages and plans to expand onto Android in the near future.
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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