A student of the Moscow Institute of Architecture has developed a unique deaf glove

Danila Fominichenko, a first-year student at Moscow Architectural Institute, and two years ago a student of Moscow School No. 2065, became the youngest winner of the Made in Russia award in the Science and Technology – Seekers nomination.

While still a tenth grader, Danila Fomichenko developed a model of a deaf glove that can voice sign language. The young man wanted his device to help deaf-mutes communicate with the outside world, because he saw the difficulties that a hearing-impaired person faces when, for example, he needs to make an order in a cafe or in a store. Daniil developed his project together with a computer science teacher, having analyzed similar devices that exist on the market.

According to the young inventor, all existing devices had serious drawbacks, for example, some only displayed letters and words on the screen, others only worked with English and with a long delay, others turned out to be very heavy and it was difficult to hold them in their hands. Therefore, Danila tried to make sure that in his invention both the accuracy of the reproduction of letters and words was at the level, and the weight of the glove was small so that the hand would not get tired of holding it.

Now the young man is improving his invention, so that with the help of a deaf glove, a hearing-impaired person can, in particular, communicate with smart assistants – Alice and Siri.

Mona Platonov.