Some university students probably count themselves as accomplished if they manage to take a nap while they're not in class. (Or was that just me?) But Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor, two sophomores at the University of Washington, decided to use their free time for a much more badass cause: designing a pair of gloves to help people who are deaf communicate more easily. The duo designed the gloves in UW's CoMotion MakerSpace, Bustle reports.

The SignAloud glove prototype recognizes hand gesture and placements matching them to the correct American Sign Language word or phrase. Sensors throughout the glove pick up the placement and motion data of the hands which is sent to a computer via Bluetooth. The computer analyzes the data, searching for a correlation in its database, and if it recognizes a gesture, then the ASL translation is played through a speaker.

Earlier this month, Azodi and Pryor won the $10,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their invention.

They demonstrate their absurdly cool gloves in the video, above.