Medical Gloves in Kenya

More than 30 million people around the world suffer from speech disorders and have difficulty communicating with people who do not know sign language. Roy Allela, a young and ambitious 25-year-old enthusiastic engineer from Kenya, solved this problem, Bored Panda reported. His latest invention is a smart glove that converts body language movements into normal speech. Today Roy works for Intel and teaches at the University of Oxford. But he owes his invention to his six-year-old niece. The girl was born deaf and had difficulty communicating with her family, as most family members did not know sign language. Roy really wanted to help her, so he was inspired to create a tool that would make communication easier. Sign-IO is an innovative smart glove that has flexible sensors on each finger that detect the number of finger bends. The gloves are connected to a special application via Bluetooth, which, after reading the gestures, converts the data into letters.  Medical Gloves in Kenya “My niece wears gloves, connects them to her or my phone, then starts gesturing, and I can understand what she is saying,” the engineer said. Roy added that his niece is good at reading lips, so she has no problem understanding what others are saying. The innovation is already being used in a school for "special needs" children in rural southwestern Kenya. User feedback helped to understand what part of the tool needed improvement, what was the speed of language conversion. “People speak at different speeds, and it's the same with people who gesticulate. We took this into account when developing a mobile application so that it would be convenient for everyone to use it,” added Roy. BB. https://jiji.co.ke/302-medical-gloves