Medgadget reports that researchers at Cornell and the University of Washington are developing software so that compressed images of sign language can be transmitted via cellphone. The project is called MobileASL , and what's key here are cell phones and PDAs with larger screens, but also a skin detection capability in the video capture unit that focuses on hands and face, as well as some other detection of small and large movements.

Will be interesting to see how ASL via cellphone will change ASL, perhaps standardizing it.