New Student-Developed Technology Could Be A Game-Changer For People With Disabilities

Undergraduate Winners for their invention SignAloud, gloves that translate sign language into text and speech. Researchers have floated possibilities in this space that could end up transforming health care, like using Google Glass to give doctors more treatment information in real time. And health care wearables promise to be a billion-dollar industry. Just this month, IBM announced the latest in a string of health and tech partnerships, a project with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to us wearable sensors to help study and treat patients with Parkinson's disease. But last week, two new wearable technologies gained a spotlight when their creators were awarded the Lemelson-MIT student prize, a yearly cash award to a handful of collegiate inventors.