{"id":2701,"date":"2016-12-31T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:37:34","slug":"bbc-future-the-glove-that-transmits-touch-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/bbc-future-the-glove-that-transmits-touch-over-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; Future &#8211; The glove that transmits \u2018touch\u2019 over the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150312-how-to-talk-online-with-only-touch\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/p02ll8hw.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Blind-deaf people are often forced to live in a small and isolated world. But can a new glove open the way for easier communication? Lesley Ogden Evans reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s good to keep in touch \u2013 something that Edi Haug and Laura Schwengber know only too well. The pair have been friends since childhood. Within the first year of their friendship, nerve damage inflicted by an inherited genetic condition robbed Haug of his sight and hearing. He was nine. But children are natural innovators. \u201cWe started to invent languages and forms of communication just because we were kids and we wanted to play,\u201d says Schwengber. \u201cIt was annoying that he couldn&#8217;t hear me, and I couldn&#8217;t write something down,\u201d she says. So the two invented their own tactile language.<\/p>\n<p>As Haug and Schwengber grew older, they replaced their private language with one that is more widely understood: Lorm, a tactile alphabet spelled out with strokes to the hand. It was invented in the nineteenth century by Hieronymus Lorm \u2013 an anonymous pseudonym, for Austrian-born poet, journalist, and novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/judaica\/ejud_0002_0013_0_12762.html\">Heinrich Landesmann<\/a> \u2013 and is still used today by the deaf-blind community in German-speaking countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-media inline-image\">\n<div class=\"inline-image-wrapper\"><a id=\"p02lv0k9\" class=\"responsive-image-wrapper fullsizeable\" href=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/wwfeatures\/wm\/live\/1600_900\/images\/live\/p0\/2l\/v0\/p02lv0k9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive landscape\" title=\"With practice Lorm can really become part of a deaf-blind individual\u2019s social network (Credit: Design Research Lab)\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/p02lv0k9.jpg\" alt=\"With practice Lorm can really become part of a deaf-blind individual\u2019s social network (Credit: Design Research Lab)\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20150312-how-to-talk-online-with-only-touch\">BBC &#8211; Future &#8211; The glove that transmits \u2018touch\u2019 over the internet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind-deaf people are often forced to live in a small and isolated world. But can a new glove open the way for easier communication? Lesley Ogden Evans reports. It\u2019s good to keep in touch \u2013 something that Edi Haug and Laura Schwengber know only too well. The pair have been friends since childhood. 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