1. weliveinthefuture: Time: Best Inventions of the Year 2012 Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words. How is it possible that these could be only $75?

    weliveinthefuture:

    Time: Best Inventions of the Year 2012

    Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words.

    How is it possible that these could be only $75?

    • November 9, 2012 at 12:21am
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    1. brinconvenient reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
      Having my first long-term experience with deaf and hard-of-hearing people (my partner’s parents), in a hospital setting...
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      :0
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      This is awesome if this is true! Great invention
    8. prenelleflamel reblogged this from stephendiaz and added:
      This is fucking amazing , good job
    9. butt-pirate reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
      awesome!!
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      Holy crap 21st century humans you so awesome
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