Olenka Polak and her brother Adam grew up in a multilingual household and that hardship led them to a business breakthrough. While Olenka was at Harvard, she and her brother were thinking about how CDs and DVDs came in many languages but the movie seeing experience was still strictly in the English language. The siblings developed an app that uses one’s phone microphone to capture the sound and experience of what is happening on the screen, then it also translates the dialogue into the language of choice. Such a gateway idea has the potential to bridge such a gap between the theater industry an those who do not have English as their first language. The Polak’s idea has drawn attention from far and wide, even from the likes of Disney, Paramount, and Sony. With industry titans knocking at their door it is hard to speculate what the myLINGO’s potential value will be but they could possibly monopolize an entire industry. The Polaks are another example of young people seeing a problem and finding out a way to fix it, and make money doing so.
this has incredible potential for not only the movie industry but for alot of different things moving forward. very interesting
This is really smart. I cant believe they have so many large companies looking at their product