How do people show their fondness of information?

We complain about our oversupply of information. We treasure it nonetheless. We aren’t shutting down our e-mail addresses. On the contrary, we’re buying pocket computers and cellular modems and mobile phones with tiny message screens to make sure that we can log in from the beaches and mountaintops. These devices are fed by our ever-growing militia of information carriers.

The popular app Word Lens, which was called "mind-blowing" by the weblog Lifehacker when it debuted in 2010, allows users to train their smartphone camera on foreign text and see real-time translation via text replacement on their screen. Word Lens is a streamlined advancement on Google’s current camera translation feature for Android, which allows users to take a cameraphone photo of text and highlight words for translation.