New Devices Open Communications for Deaf

By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer, Electronic Devices / Consumer & Gadgets

Ken Gan demonstrates his Interpretype device at his business in Rochester, N.Y., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. The device, which Gan developed five years ago to better communicate with the deaf customers at his auto repair shop, has a keyboard and display that hooks up to another Interpretype or a PC, allowing a hearing person and a deaf person to communicate back and forth by typing messages to each other. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

(AP) -- Five years ago the staff at Ken Gan's auto repair shop told him they needed to find a better way of communicating with customers who were deaf.

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