A High-Tech Helping Hand
Prototype Glove Translates Sign Langauge Into Speech
From: abcNEWS.com
By: Peter Barnes, Tech Live Washington, DC, Bureau chief

Jose Hernandez Rebollar's right arm is covered with wires and nodules.

There's also a small, flat black box on his forearm. They're all connected to
the glove he's wearing, which is also wired. The whole apparatus, in turn, is
connected to a laptop computer. When he raises his arm and points to his
forehead, a mechanical, synthetic voice, says, "Smart ... smart."  

Rebollar is a researcher at George Washington University in Washington, DC,
and the sensor-studded glove he's working on isn't a device to sooth a huge
egos. Instead, it's a new technology that could be a big boost for the deaf
and hearing-impaired. 


Read the entire story at:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/TechTV/techtv_glovetranslate030224.html

Links:
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~gogo/papers/hernandez_ICMI_2002.pdf
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~gogo/papers/hernandez_SIGGRAPH_2002.pdf
http://www.computer.org/proceedings/icmi/1834/18340185abs.htm

Contributed by Maurice LeBlanc