so um
every once in a while an email lands in my inbox
from a weird overseas company
that isn't about yet another battery bank and this one oh this one caught my
attention this is
the wt2
a real-time translating earphone
the pitch and their included video suggests
that you just take one of these twinkie bad boys
jam it into your ear canal find a friend who doesn't speak the same
language as you and jam the other one in theirs and you
can talk to each other with real-time translation
but could it work
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so unboxing wise this is pretty straightforward there's not a lot
included um no manuals no uh
no like actual production hardware uh they made it really clear to us this
is early software early hardware in fact
they sent us two uh one of which is actually fully 3d printed so let's have
a look at what we got there's a micro usb charging cable so that goes into the
outside of the magnetic box that holds
here we go so this passes the charging
over to the other side and then it comes with a couple of these little
uh silicone ear tip pieces so hopefully they'll be slightly less uncomfortable
those really don't go on there that easily
all right there we go come on
okay you have got to be kidding me
okay here's a design flaw for you guys already
you have to go through that every time you charge it
you have to take this off to put it oh why did i take it off
there's not really a whole lot to the twinkies so there's the charging
contacts on the inside there's a microphone hole on this side there's a
little what looks like kind of like a whatsapp logo that illuminates either
blue when it's pairing or green once it's
paired and then that also acts as a capacitive button next order of business
we need the app which is only available for iOS at this time there's no Android
version so once we've done just a normal bluetooth pairing process
uh blah blah hey
all right rock on so now we're connected goes like that yeah there we go
and it kind of sits in your ear like uh like one of
those douchey bluetooth headsets from the early 2000s
and there's two modes so ask mode hit the microphone
okay i am now saying something oh i think you hold it down i am saying
something now
a baby holding down i'm better now
well that was very close to my intent okay i need someone who actually speaks
chinese or this is not going to go anywhere i'll be right back
okay so dennis for the sake of this video can you
pretend you don't speak any english
perfect love it
i brought dennis here for the chat mode so that's a different mode chat mode is
the real-time translation that really got my attention
in their original email so uh there's two modes um one of us
wears the master and the other one wears the slave
which is a little awkward but you don't understand what i'm saying
anyway right no english
explode life please
this is dennis acting man he's too good
he's too good so let's try let's try to have a
conversation hello you seem like a very nice person
i would like to be your friend
thank you but you look terrible okay hold on
what do you mean i look terrible
england will make a violent circle heart
well one thing is for certain this does seem to be working fairly well
i'm glad i know what you truly think about
thank you i love you okay so now i'm actually not very
certain if it's working properly
okay okay let's try one more scenario before we give up okay i got another
scenario so we've already seen that it's pretty good for like
you know trying to pick someone up so um okay let's see if it works a little
better for that okay hey there sexy
i would like to spend some time with you tonight
remember first rule of improv is you can never say no
oh
i'm a little nervous too baby i've never done anything like this before
i say we get out of this place and go find somewhere a little more
comfortable
i favor get out of this place and you'll find i'm a little more comfortable oh no
we're both gonna be comfortable that's the idea look how comfortable you feel
right now
are you sure you wouldn't rather have something a little stronger
what
i'll tell you what dad
something a little stronger no it's cool baby my dad wants to be
involved too
okay okay you know what no no no just okay just
did that make any sense in chinese i would rather just learn to speak english
or just use body language
well i guess with the picking up sort of example the body language could be uh
you know very uh it doesn't work no okay well i wasn't gonna have success
with that either way did anything that i was saying makes
sense in chinese or were you just cheating because you actually understand me
i would say only 10 to 20
of the sentences are translated correctly and every time you say take me home
let's go home together they translate quite well so you get that right at
least so like what base is this
you know second base is you know grabbing the breasts i mean when i come
and stick something in your ear oh you get to touch my ear
that's the first base at least
that's it that's dennis's first base okay
the wt2 not quite ready for prime time still
some challenges even with the base concept because i think carrying
something like this around being like hey
brother from another country can you just wedge this thing in your
ear and then maybe we could talk to each other
doesn't seem since you have to have a phone with you anyway
like it's any more efficient than just using google translate
or just use your hands
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