At the beginning of each semester I poll students with questions like, “Does your professor ever use words that you don’t know the meaning of?” usually anywhere for 70-80% of the students answer yes. I also ask “Are you ever too self-conscious to ask for clarification when that happens?” again close to 80% of the students say yes. This tool would alleviate that level of angst for students as well as making it easier for them to learn. In healthcare this could potentially help eliminate errors that occur due to misunderstandings. When I worked in healthcare there were many times that patients did not understand what their provider had said to them but they were too embarrassed to ask. Example, patient asked if they were NPO prior to having their glucose checked, they had finished their breakfast 20 minutes earlier. NPO means “nothing by mouth”, this could have resulted in a change in their insulin dosage which could have resulted in their blood sugar getting too low. I’m sure this could be a distraction at first but we know that the more neural pathways there are to information the easier it is to retrieve that same information. By hearing words, then reading what they mean immediately after and having a visual from the situation that is potentially 3 pathways to the same information. I know not everyone has or wants a smartphone but maybe the devise could evolve into something that would just implant the plain language interpretation into the persons memory.