Undergrads Win Prize for Gloves That Translate Sign Language
From: Wireless Design - 04/13/2016

Two University of Washington undergraduates have won a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT
Student Prize for gloves that can translate sign language into text or speech.

Their invention, "SignAloud," is a pair of gloves that can recognize hand
gestures that correspond to words and phrases in American Sign Language. Each
glove contains sensors that record hand position and movement and send data
wirelessly via Bluetooth to a central computer. The computer looks at the
gesture data through various sequential statistical regressions, similar to a
neural network. If the data match a gesture, then the associated word or
phrase is spoken through a speaker.

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http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/04/undergrads-win-prize-gloves-translate-sign-language
http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-team-wins-10000-lemelson-mit-student-prize-for-gloves-that-translate-sign-language

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These Gloves Translate Sign Language into Text or Speech
http://mentalfloss.com/article/78883/these-gloves-translate-sign-language-text-or-speech

UW undergraduate team wins $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for gloves that
  translate sign language
http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-team-wins-10000-lemelson-mit-student-prize-for-gloves-that-translate-sign-language