Learn a Foreign Country’s Lingo in a Snap with Navigator

Lingo Corporation’s Navigator

Lingo Corporation's $70 Navigator has the style of an MP3 player and can translate in a dozen countries' languages.

If you travel a lot, whether it’s for vacation or business, pretty soon you’ll be able to learn the local lingo in no time.

Lingo Corporation has introduced the Navigator, which is a nifty little gadget that has the form factor of an MP3 player and the intelligence of a multilingual dictionary. It’s a 12-language talking translator that can fit in your shirt pocket if you want.

Navigator comes in a white and dark gray finish and with its iPod-like feel you won’t stand there looking like too dorky of a tourist when you’re trying to find out how to say “Where’s the restroom” the next time you’re in Italy. It translates and speaks more than 9,000 common phrases in 12 languages and translates over 30,000 words. 

All search functions are neatly and easily conducted using the built-in navigator wheel interface. 
Navigator also features sightseeing information on the 12 countries it translates for (check with Lingo to see which ones) and allows users to save their 25 favorite sentences to memory. Aside from language conversion, the gadget also comes with a metric converter, currency converter, games, and a world time clock.

Navigator will be available by March 2008 and carry a suggested retail price of $70.