Twenty-five-year-old Kenyan engineer and innovator, Roy Allela, has created a set of gloves that will ultimately allow better communication between those who are deaf and those who are hearing yet may not necessarily know sign language. The Sign-IO gloves in essence translate signed hand movements into audible speech.
Allela’s gloves feature sensors located on each finger that detect the positioning of each finger, including how much each finger will bend into a given position. The glove connects via Bluetooth to an Android phone which then will leverage use the text-to-speech function to provide translated speech to the hand gestures of a person signing.



The inspiration behind the Sign-IO gloves comes from the personal experience of having a young niece who is deaf. He nor his family knows sign language and often struggled to adequately and consistently communicate with her. “My niece wears the gloves, pairs them with her phone or mine, then starts signing. I’m able to understand what she’s saying,” Allela shared in an interview with The Guardian.

Allela’s vision for the gloves is to have them placed in schools for special needs children throughout his home country of Kenya and then expand from there to positively impact the experiences of as many deaf or hearing-impaired children as possible. His gloves are amongst a number of cutting-edge projects that are contributing to the growing market of assistive technology devices that seek to provide aid to those with specific impairments and limitations.
More here https://www.uchehub.com.ng/2019/02/meet-the-kenyan-engineer-who-created-glove-that-turn-sign-language-into-audible-speech.html

Incredible

Something good can come out of Kenya

Wow! Great innovation

Now that's incredible

Now that's news right there....many more ideas sir....

On our way to FP ... let’s take selfie here first

Commendable innovation

He will be deported to the US.
US swallows TASTY BRAINS from other nations.
He will be offered a SCHOLARSHIP, even the country can’t reject

Now that's innovation not joining metals together and calling it car

Ingenious

Good thing

Awesome. Super awesome!!

Correct

This is good

very good

There are brains in Africa.
If only we can focus on developing our human resources and promoting innovation, instead of committing to socialist programmes like tradermoni and N-power; we'll be competing with first-rate countries in a matter of years!

i am scared he will be exported abroad

Can he also develop a "slightly" functional brain for buhari if I fund the project?
please, let me know.

woooah even the asian haven't invented this. now I believe. Africa has a future

this guy is already super rich. people from the whole world would purchase this

Now this is the definition of 'cutting edge'

There is a very tiny line between science and magic.

This is super impressive if it's true.

nice