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A Glove That Listens

  • July 11, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

At age 16, in 2002, Ryan Patterson got an idea while watching an interpreter help deaf people order in a restaurant. A year later he invented the American Sign Language Translator, a glove with sensors that turns finger-signed words into letters on a small wireless display.

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