{"375801":{"#nid":"375801","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"High-tech gloves can teach you Braille even if you\u0027re distracted","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt looks like a team of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/02\/18\/georgia-tech-researchers-turn-an-iphone-into-a-braille-writer-wi\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;researchers is in the business of making wondrous, high-tech gloves -- their most recent one, for instance, can teach you Braille even if you\u0027re doing something else. Similar to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/07\/18\/vibrating-glove-gives-piano-lesson-paralysis-rehab\/\u0022\u003Epiano-teaching glove\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;they designed years ago, this new pair has vibrating motors on each knuckle that buzz in different patterns to correspond with preset Braille phrases. To test how well the gloves work, they asked volunteers during an experiment to play a game for 30 minutes while the motors buzz along with audio cues. When the subjects typed the phrases after half an hour, the researchers found their answers to be mostly accurate, with some even getting perfect scores.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 18:21:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"public library","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/24\/glove-braille-georgia-tech\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}