Low Cost Glove Translates Sign Language, May Be Used to Practice Surgery in Virtual R
 

Low Cost Glove Translates Sign Language, May Be Used to Practice Surgery in Virtual Reality
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At the University of California San Diego engineers have developed a low-cost electronic glove capable of understanding sign language. A user simply puts it on and can sign away, with the glove wirelessly transmitting what it’s interpreting to a**ther device to be read out or for the words to appear on a screen. The cost of all the partsآ*comes out to less than $100, including the printed stretchable electronic sensorsآ*that are attached to the top of the fingers.

The sensors are made of a silicon polymer with a stripe of electrically conductive carbon paint on top of it.آ*The combination is flexible without being brittle, the sensors maintaining theirآ*integrity while detecting when they’re flexed based on changes in electrical resistance.

The team dubbed the deviceآ*“The Language of Glove,” and while it may be useful for deaf people, the investigators envision it having other applications such as practicing surgery withinآ*virtual reality and maybe to be used as surgical gloves that can be simultaneously employed to control medical devices without breaking sterility. They’re also hoping to embed touch sensors into the fingertips of the glove to give it even more capabilities.

Here’s a quick demo of the tech**logy:



Study in PLOS ONE: The Language of Glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics…

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