Applications are expected to be as diverse as recording a pianist playing his own composition, to training medical health practitioners in the proper palm or finger pressures to apply for infant CPR, to designing a better tool handle or computer mouse.

The sensors could also quantify what has been an entirely subjective measurement - pain - by objectively determining the sensitivity of injured tissues to touch, as might be done for burn victims.

Based on capacitive sensor technology, the sensors are capable of measuring pressures up to 10 lb in 0.1 lb increments. Less than 2 mm thick, they are mounted in stretchable fabric for a snug fit on the user's fingers.
The systems are USB powered and supported by PC-resident software that displays and tracks time-series, average, and peak pressures in easy to read color graphics.

Currently available only as a research and development kit, users can choose to have up to four finger and palm sensors for each hand. In addition to the sensors, the systems contain a sensing circuit, USB interface, and the software.

Integration of the fingertip sensors into task-specific gloves is offered on a custom order basis.  
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