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This Technology Could Change the Way Deaf People Live
A new device being produced to ship in fall 2015 could be the first compact, real-time interpreter for deaf people who cannot speak.
Courtesy of MotionSavvy
By
Katy Steinmetz
October 22, 2014 5:10 PM EDT
Ryan Hait-Campbell says his San Francisco company’s invention is really about jobs. Deaf people like himself, explains the MotionSavvy CEO, are too often shunted into positions that don’t require talking to anyone—washing dishes, fishing or other solitary vocations that often have low wages, little opportunity for advancement and no need for an employer to hire an interpreter. One study found that only 58% of working-age Americans with a severe hearing impairment have a job at all.
MotionSavvy’s first product, though still in prototype stage, could revolutionize the prospects of millions who are deaf or [...]
