Enable talk gloves

Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words.

That is from Time’s list of the notable inventions of 2012, the link to that item is here, the entire series starts here.  For the pointer I thank Matthew Petersen.