Language is a big challenge for armies travelling to other conteinents. Specially in a war sceneario. And here comes a amusing disclosure; The US Army uses iPod touch loaded with an custom language tool for translating commands to local languages.
The app allows the soldiers to select a situation (eg a raid), and then a command. Upon selecting the command (say: ‘Get Down’) they will see a animated screen with vocal assistance in local language. Well thats a really handy tool. Head over to Gizmodo and see the video demo …