Many science fiction authors stated that life eventually imitates sci-fi. Well today, that’s even more true. Author Douglas Adams in his book, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” had to come up with a way for Arthur, a human, to understand every galactic language. He created an animal as a solution called the babelfish. The Babelfish is a tiny fish you stick in your ear, and it listens to languages where it whipers the translation in your native language back to you. Well my friends, Carnegie Mellon Univerisity has created a conceptual babelfish. Check out this article or press more for my cache.
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