THIS GLOVE SAYS IT ALL
A high school senior has designed a glove that can translate American Sign
Language into text by sensing the hand movements of the sign language
alphabet and then beaming the data to a portable device that displays the
text on-screen. The prototype device is made from a leather golf glove
equipped with 10 sensors, a small circuit board containing a micro
controller, analog-to-digital converter and a radio-frequency transmitter.
Because each user signs a little differently, the glove must be trained to
"understand" the user. "Just like people have different voices, they also
have different-sized hands and different hand movements," says the device's
creator, Ryan Patterson. Patterson won a first place $103,000 scholarship
in the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology competition in December.
(Wired.com 28 Jan 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49716,00.htm


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