GPS gloves double as action recorder
High tech gloves have been around for some time now, starting with sophisticated heating systems, making phone calls via Bluetooth link to a cell phone or controlling an iPod.
Zanier, an Austrian based company has announced the most innovative and technically sophisticated glove on the planet, the X-Plore.XGX with integrated GPS and mini display on the [...]
Atlas Gloves – a DIY hand gesture interface
This weeks wearable electronic DIY project introduction is not very challenging on the eTextile part but it is one of the most outstanding projects I have seen around the interactive glove topic.
The Atlas Gloves, created by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv at the ITP – NYU, act as a physical interface for controlling 3D mapping [...]
Talk to my glove
Interactive gloves made it back into our headlines. We have covered recently the more simpler but yet very useful, I might even say essential touch screen gloves without which we are running around with frozen fingers or with our inability to receive even something simple like a cell phone call.
Designer William Mazuel envisions a much [...]
TouchTec gloves keep fingers warm while operating touch screens
As most of the newer personal devices feature touch sensitive input usually via the screen, operating them during cold winter days can become an annoyance. Conventional, old tech gloves have to be taken off before one can even pick up a phone call.
See, electronic technology advances at a high speed but we or our clothing [...]
Lady’s Glove – probably the worlds first interactive glove
Gloves with integrated sensors, adding various functions to the finger tips have surfaced over the past few years in large numbers but to my amazement I found a sensory enhanced glove, created by Laetitia Sonami, a composer, performer and sound installation artist back in 1991!
Created for a performance at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, [...]
Very smart gloves – AcceleGlove and Peregrine
We haven’t covered smart, interactive gloves for a while but this doesn’t mean there are no new concepts and products surfacing on a regular basis. Judging on the latest releases, these gloves are getting smarter with each version.
The latest and most advanced smart glove is the AcceleGlove from AnthroTronix.
The AcceleGlove has an accelerometer in each [...]
The North Face eTip Glove
The Wall Street Journal picked up in a recent review by Willa Plank the growing need of high-tech gloves capable to allow the operation of hand held touchscreen devices without having to take off the gloves each time an adjustment or phone call is made.
Among the products reviewed (we had some covered on talk2myShirt last [...]
iGlove technology – PlayPoint
Keeping warm fingers while outdoors during the frosty winter days requires often to wear gloves. But old fashion gloves turn out to be a problem for gadget welding folks: any and every touch surface operated device like the iPod Touch or the iPhone to name the most prominent ones can not be operated with gloved [...]
Piano Gloves – Fingertip keyboard to inspiring musicians
Who does not play songs with the fingers by hitting a table or other objects to drum up the favorite tunes while idle or under pressure.
Hammacher Schlemmer will soon launch gloves that transform your finger drumming into (almost) realistic piano, violin or mandolin sound.
For musicians: each glove can play an entire octave in the key [...]
EmoGlove – sensor glove keeps track of your online emotion
To record the frustration a computer user is undergoing during the interaction with software a team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) developed a sensor glove that tracks the movement of a computer mouse and keyboard but is also able to register physiological parameters such us heart rate, skin resistance and body [...]
