The deaf family did not know sign language: his uncle invented a "smart translator's glove"

There are many negative people who complain about problems, inconvenience, stones on the road. And there are the positives that, instead of staying with the harm that happens to them, seek a solution, an option to turn a crisis into an opportunity.

Like Roy Allela, a 25-year-old Kenyan technology fan, who decided to create something to help his six-year-old niecedeaf, who had difficulty communicating with his family because most of them did not know sign language.

What did Roy do? Tony Stark in real life he set up an intelligent glove that converts hand movements from sign language to audio. The system calls Sing-IO and has flexible sensors on each finger, which interpret the degree of flexion of each to process the letter generated by the person.

Connected via Bluetooth with an application on the phone, the system converts the words and reads them in a speaker. "My niece puts on her gloves, she connects them to her phone or mine, she starts signing and I understand what she's saying," Allela explained.

And in the opposite direction? The designer explained that the girl knew very well how to read on the lips and that she had no problem understanding what her uncle or someone else was saying. The users of the application can choose their language, their bad and even the speed with which they speak, to achieve an accuracy of 93%.

The best thing to do is that users can choose the design of the gloves – there are options for the princesses as well as Spider-Man – because, according to its creator, if the device is "canchero", the boys will want to use all the time

Now the Allela gloves have won an award from the American Association of Mechanical Engineers. What will he do with the money he has earned? Invest in improving your creation to be more effective and more people can use it. To do this, share your progress on your webpage.