the article just named the top 10. I'd like to see the projects all 40 of the winners produced. There were some fascinating topics in the top 10.

One of my coworkers and I discussed the ASL translator device. Like I mentioned before, I suspect it only translates the ASL letter symbols into text. That alone is useful but ASL is a much richer language than just the letter symbols. To have a computer program intrepret the gestures that make up most of ASL, you'd probably need to have devices like accelerometers mounted in the gloves so you could measure the gestures being made. That would be as least as complicated and sophisticated an application as speech recognition software. Sounds like a fun project, maybe a candidate for a neural network. Hmmm, the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in here in town, so there are many ASL experts available...