The Storyteller | Mary Vee

Photo Courtesy: pixabay.com Have you heard the latest about a phenomenal prototype on its way to the market? Gloves for the deaf to communicate with the listening population. The gloves have sensors that translate hand and finger signs into audible language! I have friends and acquaintances who can sign with the deaf. I also have deaf friends who can read lips. These individuals can understand me, but I am not able to understand them because I cannot sign.  The June 9, 2019 news reporting Roy Allela's award-winning gloves that enable the deaf to audibly communicate with the hearing is spreading across cyberspace. The invention won him the grand prize for the Hardware Trailblazer award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and second runner-up award at the Royal Academy of Engineering Leaders of Innovation Fellowship in London. What gave Allela the idea? He has a niece who was born deaf. The niece learned sign language, however,...

So many children end up spending a long time in hospitals. I was one. I spent my entire Kindergarten year in a hospital. Some of these little darlings pop in and out of hospitals over a long time. Nursing staff know them on a first name basis as they walk in the door. Sigh. I saw this wonderful new idea to help these little ones. I took a little screen shot of one photo to give you an idea. This link has the full art to help explain the idea: dad-turns-board-games-into-bed-sheets-so-sick-kids-arent-bored The product is called Playtime Edventures and it was designed and created by a dad. Kevin Gatlin came up with the idea after visiting a friend's child in the hospital. The kid was bored beyond belief. Kevin's heart and mind was stirred. Apparently the idea sparked from watching his wife play games with their children while in bed.  It took him two years to perfect the idea into the product today. His goal was to not only edtertain, but make the games educational...