This hat has a microphone embedded that picks up the wearer's speech, translates that speech into text, and displays that text on a flexible screen on the front of the hat. An upgraded version will convert the text into another language of the wearer's choosing.

Communications with the deaf and hearing-impaired, and with new friends in other countries, just got easier.
-- awesomest, Oct 11 2013

So long as it displays "my hovercraft is full of eels" at random intervals, it has my vote.
-- not_morrison_rm, Oct 12 2013


Hats have undergone a most lamentable decline in popularity of late, and I am in favour of anything which reverses this tendency.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 12 2013


Can it be supplied with a Borat language module ?
-- 8th of 7, Oct 13 2013


"Very nice, my hovercraft full of eels, very nice!"
-- awesomest, Oct 16 2013


If google has proprietary rights over glasses then hats might be the next best thing for competitors.
-- rcarty, Oct 16 2013



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