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June 25, 2008, 01:05 PM ET
Smart Footballs From Smarter Students
The Chronicle recently profiled a Carnegie Mellon University researcher who advises on projects to adapt cell phones as assistive technologies for the blind and deaf.
One of her students’ projects—a gesture-recognition glove that translates American Sign Language into spoken words through a cell phone—has another, potentially more lucrative use: football training. The same sensor-embedded glove technology can help identify whether a ball is being handled, caught, and thrown properly. The students are also developing a “smart” football that would contain a tracking device. This would allow coaches to plot the path of each throw and referees to make more accurate calls. Priya Narasimhan, the professor advising the team, said that several nearby high schools will soon start using the technology to train their football players.
Check out a video of the technology in action.—Catherine Rampell
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