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May 9, 2008 10:01 pm US/Eastern

CMU Students Develop 'Talking' Glove

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: "Hand Talk" - a special glove developed by four CMU undergraduates - has great potential to help the hearing impaired.
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A group of Carnegie Mellon University students are working on a senior project that could ultimately help thousands.

They call it "Hand Talk" - a special glove developed by four CMU undergraduates that has great potential to help the hearing impaired.

By moving the fingers of the glove, special sensors attached to tiny computer discs transmit text messages to a cell phone that actually vocalize the message.

The students wanted to make something that would benefit others, like allowing the deaf to vocalize their sign language, but using a laptop computer you can program the glove in many other ways, like even playing musical notes on a cell phone.

Now that the school year is over, the students will spend the summer perfecting the glove on their own.

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