fukidashi is the japanese word for speech bubble.en on each side linked via bluetooth. words spoken by a person on one side will be translated on the opposite screen, and vice versa. we investigated whether people use, actually, a phone to communicate with foreigners, but nobody uses that. i think it is because a phone is more like, it's a way to ask some concrete specific issue, like "where is the station?" or something like that. the technology behind it is not necessarily anything new. however, it's the application of the technology that's really interesting. although only a prototype at this stage, it's hoped the system can be rolled out at points across the games. and beyond, the creator hopes to take the system much further. at the next stage, maybe people can have small devices like fukidashi to use everywhere, anywhere, any time. it would be great. at present, the system can work between four languages — japanese, english, chinese and korean, though there are plans to extend the language range much further. the prototype also

fukidashi is the japanese word for speech bubble.en on each side linked by bluetooth. words spoken by one person will be translated on the opposite screen and vice versa. we'd investigate whether people use, actually, a phone to communicate with foreigners, but nobody uses that. i think it is because a phone is more like a way to ask a concrete specific issue like "where is the station?" or something like that. the technology behind it is not necessarily anything new. although only a prototype at this stage, it's hoped the system can be rolled out at points across the games. and beyond, the creator hopes to take the system much further. at the next stage, maybe people can have small devices like fukidashi to use everywhere, anywhere, any time. it would be great. at present, the system can work between four languages — japanese, english, chinese and korean, though there are plans to extend the language range much further. the prototype also currently requires access to a data signal to function. i almost want to take this with me and

fukidashi is the japanese word for speech bubble.y a person on one side will be translated on the opposite screen, and vice versa. we investigated whether people use, actually, a phone to communicate with foreigners, but nobody uses that. i think it is because a phone is more like, it's a way to ask some concrete specific issue, like "where is the station?" or something like that. the technology behind it is not necessarily anything new. however, it's the application of the technology that's really interesting. although only a prototype at this stage, it's hoped the system can be rolled out at points across the games. and beyond, the creator hopes to take the system much further. at the next stage, maybe people can have small devices like fukidashi to use everywhere, anywhere, any time. it would be great. at present, the system can work between four languages — japanese, english, chinese and korean, though there are plans to extend the language range much further. the prototype also currently requires access to a data signal to funct

fukidashi is the japanese word for speech bubble., like "where is the station?" or something like that. the technology behind it is not necessarily anything new. however, it‘s the application of the technology that‘s really interesting. although only a prototype at this stage, it‘s hoped the system can be rolled out at points across the games. and beyond, the creator hopes to take the system much further. at the next stage, maybe people can have small devices like fukidashi to use everywhere, anywhere, any time. it would be great. at present, the system can work between four languages — japanese, english, chinese and korean, though there are plans to extend the language range much further. the prototype also currently requires access to a data signal to function. amazingly clear. i almost want to take this with me for the rest of my time injapan and carry it with me. can i keep this one? and that is it for the shortcut of our olympic special. don‘t forget that we live on facebook and twitter. thank you very much for watching and we w