Sign language translation or spotting the early signs of Alzheimer's could be helped with FingerTrak, a wrist-mounted device that continuously tracks the entire human hand in 3D.
Fast, efficient and sensitive detector assemblies may be used for monitoring natural gas, condition of crops and for sorting recyclables
University of Illinois researchers have developed mats of metal oxide nanofibres that scrub sulphur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional materials.