The original date for this entry is November 21, 2011

I have this idea some days ago, thinking about the obsolescence of the current educational model, on the obsolescence of knowledge as just memorize, when now, we have all knowledge of the world everywhere in the palm of our hands. Finally, as the true knowledge revolution, in which we are fully immersed, but the big changes take time to be fully felt by the population. We are like the chained of Plato, we see the shadows but fail to see the whole. Let’s dream.

Take a series of elements;

Sunglasses An iOS device One translation iOS app (WordLens) And the typical HUD of fighters How we can combine all this?

Now, let’s close your eyes and imagine. Imagine Madrid, Gran Via, a street either. Filled with signs everywhere in Spanish. Tokyo, signs everywhere, in Japanese. Moscow, Beijing, Bangkok, Riyadh, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Athens. Different languages, even different alphabets. You can master English, Spanish, French or German or even Japanese and Chinese, but it is very difficult for you master them all.If you close your eyes I’m sure you can imagine one of those huge zebra crossings in Tokyo. Static, watching hundreds of people cross around us and surrounded by thousands of indecipherable symbols for us, in cars, tents, signs, shirts, bags ..

Imagine understand them all as a native japanese

Think of a screen as thin as glass sunglasses.Electrochromic, conjugated with two side cameras. Positioned before our eyes with two metal rods, which contain two distinct components in each sideburns. In one, an ARM processor, a “system on a chip” with Ram memory, antennas, sensors (gyroscopes..) And storage. In the other, the battery that powers the system. Under normal conditions, with nothing to translate, it behaves like normalsunglasses. The system sleeps, the electrochromic glass reacts to light becomes opaque, and otherwise indistinguishable from normal glasses.

As the cameras receive letters, revive the system from hibernation. automatically, the camera reads the message, take its position in space, and sends the signal to the system. The screen remains a sunglass ordinary, and, acting as an augmented reality HUD replaces the image of the signal that normally perceive a transformed signal.