With technology like Google Translate, we can communicate in almost any language in the world, even if we don’t know that language at all. Two people with zero words in common can use technology and hold a perfectly normal—if slightly garbled—conversation with each other. That’s pretty remarkable.
But there’s one group of people who are left out: deaf and hard-of-hearing people who speak sign languages. No translation program in the world can interpret for them, which makes it hard to communicate.
One group of researchers is working to change that. A team from the University of California San Diego built an electronic glove that can detect signs used in American Sign Language and translate those signs into English.
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Source: Popular Mechanics