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Two University of Washington students have invented the SignAloud gloves, which translate American Sign Language into speech or text.
The gloves use sensors to capture gestures, transmitting data wirelessly to a computer for translation.
The goal was to develop lightweight ergonomic gloves to be used every day and bridge communication gap between ASL users and non-signers.
The students were awarded the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their invention.