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Translating Smart Gloves

Clean the Sky - Positive Eco Trends & Breakthroughs

These Smart Gloves Translate Hand Gestures into Text

— June 14, 2017 — Social Good
These translating smart gloves are helping people with hearing impairments communicate with people who don't understand sign language. Featured at the Computex Global Trade Show in Taipei, these black gloves come equipped with finger sensors, accelerators and gyrators that can not only understand and differentiate between various hand gestures, but can preform real-time translation, providing a text transcript to its paired smartphone app. The artificial intelligence utilized in the gloves offers 90% accuracy, promising to better connect people to each other.

The development of these gloves mean that people who communicate using sign language can now effectively interact with people who do not understand sign. This is an innovation the deaf community has been waiting for that provides an accurate translating tool that doesn't impose itself on either party.
Trend Themes
1. Smart Gloves for Translation - The development of smart gloves for translation enables effective communication between people who use sign language and those who do not.
2. Real-time Hand Gesture Translation - Real-time hand gesture translation technology allows for immediate understanding and communication between individuals using sign language and those who don't.
3. Artificial Intelligence in Translation Gloves - The use of artificial intelligence in translation gloves offers a 90% accuracy in translating hand gestures, bridging the communication gap between the hearing impaired and others.
Industry Implications
1. Assistive Technology - The development of translating smart gloves falls within the assistive technology industry, providing a solution for individuals with hearing impairments.
2. Language Translation - The real-time translation capabilities of smart gloves contribute to the language translation industry by facilitating communication between different language users.
3. Artificial Intelligence - The integration of artificial intelligence in smart gloves creates disruptive innovation opportunities within the AI industry, particularly in the field of gesture recognition and translation.
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