Science Two American bollebozen have a smart glove developed sign language to immediately translate it. Their prototype interprets the gestures and says that through a speaker immediately. Co-developer Navid Azodi know what he has: due to serious health problems, he was forced to up his seventh to make do in sign language.
The smart glove got the name SignAloud. It is an invention of Azodi, and Thomas Pryor, respectively business administration and luchtvaartkundig engineer studying at the university of Washington in Seattle. The glove is equipped with sensors that are the movements and position of the hands to analyze and connect via bluetooth and transmit it to a laptop. The computer then analyses the gestures and associate them with words and phrases. The translation appears on the screen, or you can as text be terminated.
students dragged in 2016, the prestigious Lemelson MIT award in the wait and received a 10,000 dollar paid. They work since then to further improve their prototype. For the time being the American sign language, but other editions will hopefully soon follow. Intention is to keep the base model low priced. For now, the SignAloud not yet on sale. Azodi kreegt the idea for the smart glove by experiences from his own youth. Through many years of illness he could to his seventh only using sign language to communicate. According to the world health organization have worldwide 466 million people struggling with severe hearing loss or deafness.
