From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...

Your baby is crying and won’t stop, and you can’t figure out why. Is she hungry? Is she tired? No matter what you do, nothing is working. Finally, you look at your frustrated and miserable baby and ...

Making use of sleek black gloves, sophisticated sensors, a microcontroller and a smartphone, students from the Ukraine have created a device that translates sign language into speech. Called “Enable ...

This is one of those advances in technology that you have to hope will make it big in the not-too-distant future. A team of Ukrainian computer programers have just won Microsoft's Imagine Cup with an ...

At the very beginning of the “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols” (1972), the book’s author and one of the era’s most accomplished industrial designers, Henry ...

It may not be speedy, but it works. A gloved hand forms letters in sign language, and like magic, the motions are translated to text. "U-C-S-D," the hand slowly spells out in text, referring to the ...