An estimated half a million Americans with hearing impairments use American Sign Language (ASL) every day. But ASL has one shortcoming: While it allows people who are deaf to communicate with one ...

Helen Keller once wrote "blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people," and there are many technological projects dedicated to breaking down those interpersonal ...

California researchers developed a glove embedded with electronic sensors that can translate American Sign Language into English in real time through an app on your smartphone. Like most wearable ...

UCLA bioengineers designed a glove-like device with thin, stretchable sensors that run along the finger. The sensors, made from electrically conducting yarns, pick up hand motions and finger ...