Hand out the music

Legend has it that some people can talk by hand. Now a professor of electronics and computer science at the University of British Columbia has decided to turn this legend into a literal capacity.

According to LiveScience , Professor Sidney Fels and his team installed a series of three-dimensional position sensors on a pair of gloves. Different movements produce different types of sounds. For example, the right hand grasping will produce a smooth, melodious sound, while the palm of the hand will emit vowels. Similarly, the left hand controls closed consonants like B or P.

Their idea is to simulate some movement of the throat and tongue when speaking. Vowels are open sounds, created with the throat and lips extended, so the hand would emit such sound. At the higher level, the right hand when raised also produces high frequency sounds.

According to the authors, the technology can also play music. In addition, Prof. Fels emphasized that the control of heavy machinery could also be applied to such a system, which enabled the crane to operate naturally and visually.