This new finger-language interface is sure to revolutionize sign language. At Interaction 2011, a demonstration of a finger-language interface, showed how text could be entered by finger gestures using a glove. Called Fingual, the glove comes with permanent magnets on each fingertip that changes the magnetic field, caused by finger gestures and measured by magnetic sensors on the glove. The glove has a photo reflector, which produces infrared light & by placing your fingers near it, it lets you enter finger language. Another feature is that the magnetic field for each letter shape is used as a data set, and by capturing this data in advance for each user, text recognition can be done easily.

Initial testing has seen a 90 per cent recognition rate indoor, while with data prepared by other people, the recognition rate is currently 80-90 per cent. Watch how it works below. The success of the Fingual could make it easier to enter sign language as text, and which opens doors to various possibilities including being able to e-mail on a mobile phone using finger language. This we like.
[DigiInfo]