And no, that doesn’t mean your phone will join in with verbal abuse when you stick two fingers up at people. Although it’s certainly a thought, if anyone from Nokia’s R&D team is reading… No, HandTalk is far more serious than that. It’s a technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University, which was demonstrated in public for the first time this week. It’s aimed at helping deaf people to communicate with anyone who doesn’t know American Sign Language. The idea: someone wears the glove, and then makes hand gestures, which are converted into speech via their mobile phone, which then ’speaks’ them. So, clenching your fist makes the phone say “Good morning”, while extending your index finger, second finger and thumb makes it say “I’m having a good time”. Cool, and useful to boot. (via Textually)
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