I've got a hard time keeping track of gloves so most winters I just go without.

These two students have invented gloves that do so much more than than protect your hands from the elements.

Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor won a $10,00 Lemelson MIT-Student-Prize for creating the SignAloud gloves, which translate American Sign Language into speech or text.

I can't even begin to imagine what this means for the sign language community, and how this will open so many new worlds for communication.

Here is how it works: each SignAloud glove has sensors that record movement and gestures then transmit the info wirelessly to a central computer. The computer then looks at the data, and if it matches a gesture, the associated word or phrase is spoken through a speaker.

Congrats to these two for being brilliant, and for using their brains for humanity.

Looks like maybe the future may be in goods hands after all when you have young people like this helping connect hands and hearts with audible words.

Source: Huffington Post

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