This Smart Glove Could Help Divers Warn Each Other When There’s Danger Nearby (Cool Weird Awesome 1226)
There’s a new development under the sea: a smart glove that could help scuba divers help each other steer clear of danger.
This Smart Glove Can Help People Recover From A Stroke (Cool Weird Awesome 1177)
A new wearable device can track arm and hand movements from people recovering from strokes to help improve their rehab exercises.
Eco-Friendly Latex Could Keep A Lot of Gloves Out of Landfills (Cool Weird Awesome 431)
We use hundreds of billions of latex gloves a year, for a lot of important reasons. Scientists at Cranfield University in the UK are developing an eco-friendly latex glove that uses less energy to produce and will biodegrade in weeks rather than centuries. Plus: today in 1997, Kenny G set a world record for longest single note played on a saxophone.
The Smart Glove That Can Translate Sign Language Into Speech (Cool Weird Awesome 331)
A team at UCLA has built technology into a glove that can recognize the hand movements from American Sign Language and translate those movements into spoken English in real time through a smartphone app. Plus: scientists in Australia say they can modify cotton to make its own color, without not-so-eco-friendly chemical dyes.