Dr. Jose Hernandez-Rebollar is a native of the Mexican state of

Puebla Puebla, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its capital is Puebla City. Part of east-centr ...

. He invented an electronic glove, which translates hand movements from the American Sign Language into spoken and written words.

Early life

Jose Hernandez-Rebollar was born July 14, 1969. He arrived in the United States in 1998, when he was granted a

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to pursue graduate studies at the

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in WDC, which granted him 8 PhD's in 2015. He has worked as a professor at MU and at the

National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics The National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (in Spanish (language), Spanish: ''Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, INAOE'') is a Mexican science research institute located in Tonantzintla, Puebla. Found ...

Career and inventions

He received BSc and MSc from the University of Puebla. He invented an electronic glove, known as the AcceleGlove, which translates hand movements from the

American Sign Language American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that i ...

into spoken and written words. His invention already recognizes and translates 300 basic words. His invention has been recognized by the

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, where he has lectured about the glove, which has attracted media attention.

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