Travis Touch is a "universal translator" - but is it too late?

Of all the cool gadgets in Star Trek, one of the least-appreciated is the universal translator, which lets the crew of the Enterprise – or Voyager, or Discovery – talk to pretty much anyone through their communicators. So when I heard there was a real-world version called the Travis Touch, I jumped on it faster than you can say "open hailing frequencies." Travis Touch is a small Android-powered handheld that packs enough built-in intelligence to translate 105 spoken languages – more than t...