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 [...]
talk2myHand - Swany G-CELL cellphone glove
Swany presented their Red-Dot award winning G-CELL™ during this years ispo winter 2008. The innovative G-CELL™ combines a high quality ski glove with an integrated Bluetooth cellphone link making it the first commercially high tech glove on the ski slopes.
The G-CELL™ has a microphone and speaker integrated as well as the call and end button, [...]
iPod glove liner - a unique remote control concept
A brilliant idea for an iPod controlling glove liner based on magnetic contacts has been posted by YouTube member jdub765.
Each finger has assigned on of the five function needed for the basic navigation of an iPod. The ’switch’ is realized with small magnets in the gloves finger tip. When a finger touches the receiver for [...]
The Original Hand-Talk glove
We have posted a few days ago the story of the HandTalk communication glove from a team of students at Carnegie Mellon University that translates American Sign Language (ASL) into speech via a cell phones running text to speech software.
A great and useful looking concept that could help to bridge the communication barrier between deaf [...]
HandTalk - interactive communication glove
You might know the term ‘talk to my hand’ used in situations like “you’d be as well talk to my hand ‘cos I ain’t gonna listen to you anyway“.
A group of engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University gave this term a twist and created a hand that talks.
The students Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria, Jorge L. [...]
