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Mexico: Electronics for a Good Cause

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 20 November 2006 17:29 GMT

Beth Kanter interviews Maria Estela Godinez, a high school student from San Francisco del Rincón, México who “built a glove that allows speech-challenged people to move their fingers in a similar fashion to Braille language and have those signals recognized by software that converts them into speech.” The interview was translated to English by Ricardo Carreón.

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