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# The deaf get a helping hand from new motion-sensing gloves.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/gloves-and-more-imagine-cup/
- Published: 2012-07-12T17:00:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:58:54.000Z
- Description: Motion-sensing gloves—like the ones from Minority Report—may have finally found a practical use at this year’s Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s annual student competition. The first prize went to a group of Ukrainian students who have been engineering a new kind of glove that interprets and verbalizes sign
- Author: Jacob Simon
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Motion-sensing gloves—like the ones [from Minority Report](http://www.ted.com/talks/john%5Funderkoffler%5Fdrive%5F3d%5Fdata%5Fwith%5Fa%5Fgesture.html?ref=killscreen.com)—may have finally found a practical use at this year’s [Imagine Cup](http://imaginecup.com/?ref=killscreen.com), Microsoft’s annual student competition. The first prize went to a group of Ukrainian students who have been engineering a new kind of glove that interprets and verbalizes sign language. [Enable Talk](http://enabletalk.com/?ref=killscreen.com), as the creators have named the invention, will allow the deaf and mute to communicate with people who don’t know how to sign. It’s one of [several](http://killscreendaily.com/headlines/thanks-kinect-and-cornell-youll-soon-have-robots-cleaning-your-house/?ref=killscreen.com) [helpful](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-11/08/kinect-robot-guide-dog?ref=killscreen.com) [inventions](http://killscreendaily.com/headlines/uk-researchers-make-satellite-out-kinect-and-cell-phone-parts/?ref=killscreen.com) [in](http://killscreendaily.com/headlines/how-kinect-changing-our-non-gaming-lives/?ref=killscreen.com) the past few years to make use of devices that we’ve become familiar with through games—motion sensors, gyroscopes, and gesture recognition.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/glove2.jpg)

And it’s only one of many innovative projects that emerged at the competition, which also gave awards to Windows Phone and Xbox games such as [MathDash](http://www.ntaylormullen.com/MathDash/?ref=killscreen.com) and [Ecosia](http://www.facebook.com/Ecosia.Game) from Drexel University and Ingésup in Bordeaux, respectively.