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After four days of presentations and product demonstrations, the student team from Ukraine emerged on Tuesday as this year’s Imagine Cup Software Design champion, beating Japan and Portugal to the US$25,000 top prize.

The Ukrainian students tackled communication problems for the hearing impaired with their project “EnableTalk”, where a pair of gloves equipped with various sensors and a microcontroller continuously recognises sign language patterns as they are performed by the wearer. …

Dementia is projected to affect more than 40,000 people in Singapore by 2015, and a group of Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) students have developed an early prototype of a Windows 8 app to streamline its therapy process.

Called Dementia Assistance and Recall Engine (DARE), the app functions as a digital scrap book of sorts, designed to assist therapists in reminiscence therapy.

In this form of therapy, patients are shown images, video clips and other forms of media relevant to his personal life in an attempt to trigger his memories and maintain overall mental health. …