The Munich-based producer of professional motion picture equipment ARRI and the Freiburg Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques have been awarded the “Academy Award of Merit” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their jointly developed ARRILASER film recorder.

With the aim of better protecting endangered species, game wardens are studying the behavior of surviving great apes in the wild. This is often painstaking work because it is difficult to distinguish between different individuals. A new software system will make things easier by analyzing the animals’ faces for individual identification.

You need a mouse and a keyboard, a touch-screen or a joystick to control a computer system. In the future, a new gesture command system will make it possible to use just the fingers of a hand.

A master chef’s kitchen is not dissimilar to a high-tech laboratory: Sparkling, functional surfaces and carefully arranged special tools are as much a part of the process as are creativity and perfectionism. The well-known celebrity chef Johann Lafer has combined both worlds in his cooking school "Table d’Or", which is a forum for the culture of cooking and savoir-vivre in Guldental. He asked researchers from the Berlin-based Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI to equip his kitchen with one of their innovations: the iPoint Presenter.

Particular care must be taken in a production hall where robots and men work together, where even minor carelessness could result in serious accidents or stop production. Fraunhofer researchers introduce a new prototype for intelligent safety monitoring in industrial workplaces.

An innovatice camera system could in future enhance security in public areas and buildings. Smart Eyes works just like the human eye. The system analyzes the recorded data in real time and then immediately flags up salient features and unusual scenes.