The texting-glove for the hearing impaired is a new device that turns sign language into text, and sends it directly to one’s smartphone using Android operating software. Usind a gyroscope, an ADK Board, finger sensors and some other gear, the device can faithfully transcribe sign language into text message format.

According to our http://dvice.com/archives/2011/12/texting-glove-t.php”>source, the device was recently unveiled at Google’s Developers Day in Tel Aviv to showcase what can be done with Android software.

Thanks to text-messaging, cellphones are not without use to the hearing impaired. While it use of the glove might not be as practical as simply typing out a text message, since it takes a few moments for the phone to register and accept the glove’s motions, the motion-control-style gloves and software could probably be expanded in the future and lead to some really interesting developments.

At the very least, one could use this current technology to literally «write» things in sign language. How about writing a story using hand motions? That would be a neat item to have in the portfolio.

In other news, check out A revolution in transportation: subway game straps and Dancing multi-legged robot morphs into a ball.

China Mobile subsidiaries in Shandong province in northeastern China have reaped profits by selling numbers and spamming subscribers with ads, state-run broadcaster CCTV revealed in a consumer rights program on Sunday.

Beijing ordered the company, China’s biggest mobile carrier, to investigate the report and punish responsible staff, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in a statement (in Chinese) on its Web site. It also called on China’s other mobile carriers, China Telecom and China Unicom, to crack down on spam SMS (short message service) messages, the statement said.

China Mobile is looking into the issue, a spokeswoman said. The company’s provincial branches are largely autonomous.

Beijing launched a similar crackdown last year after CCTV exposed rampant SMS spamming by Focus Media, an advertising firm that hammered 200 million mobile phones with unwanted ads, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

China had over 640 million mobile subscribers at the end of 2008, according to the MIIT.

Mobile advertising in China’s huge market has excited investors, but the mass spamming most effective for advertisers has angered mobile users, said Shaun Rein, director of market intelligence firm China Market Research Group.

“SMS spam advertising has been really big in China, because the fact of the matter is it works,” Rein said.

SMS spam, down last year, has risen again as companies desperate for cash turn to selling mobile phone numbers, Rein said.

The MIIT has shut down 14,000 sources of SMS spam and ended severe violations by more than 300 firms since last year, according to its website.