1) I remember the original post. Word Lens lit up #1 on Hacker News for an impressive amount of time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555

2) Looks like jf did the original submission too, I wonder if he knows a Word Lens founder.

3) I like the forward-looking embrace of Google Glass. It's such a futuristic thing to have shades that translate for you. Your phone is essentially a babelfish already - how long before you can buy an auto-translating bluetooth headset?