We’ve written a lot about Burton in the past. The company is back, perhaps with their most innovative product to date. The company’s new gloves perform a dual function: Keeping your hands warm and controlling your everloving iPod.
Burton’s Mix Master gloves stick a wireless controller right inside the glove, thus eliminating the need to remove your fingers from their warm, comforting womb when you want to skip to the next Radiohead song. All you do is plug a small dongle into your iDevice and it pairs up with the music-controlling hand-wear. The rest is, well, magic.
The gloves are available now for around $160. Winter is coming. What are you waiting for?
Posted in: Burton, Gloves, iPod Integration
Now this is one Power Glove that will impress both Fred Savage and us. Scientists at Georgia Tech have created a prototype of an extremely unique vibrating glove. This bad boy vibrates in such a way that it actually increases your touch sensitivity. Now shaking hands can feel sooooo good.
Just how does this work? It adds a modicum of vibration to everything done while wearing the glove. This ends up increasing touch sensitivity as all touch sensitivity is, really, is a bunch of vibrations of varying degrees.
It’s just a concept/prototype for now but the scientists behind the glove do envision some real world uses, including helping medical patients with dulled feeling in their hands. We’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available. Until then, you are stuck with your ..read more
Posted in: Concept Design, Gloves, Tactile Feedback
The world of gloves has seen some innovation in the past couple of years. However, nobody has yet to perfect the all-in-one audio controller and cell phone navigator. Enter the BEARTek Bluetooth Glove, the smartest five-fingered accessory that you are likely to find in the near future.
What does this glove offer? An expensive Bluetooth module built right into the textiles. This allows the user to do any number of things only using their hands. The sky truly is the limit here. Consider it the Nintendo Power Glove, if the Nintendo Power Glove didn’t suck the life right out of your childhood.
Now, this is just a concept design for now. The design costs accrued quicker than the designers anticipated. As such, they have put up a Kickstarter page for donations to make their ..read more
Posted in: BEARTek, Bluetooth, Gloves
We’ve talked about Jeff Rowberg’s Keyglove before, but he has since made some vital improvements that are worth noting. Gone are the QWERTY inputs in favor of one-handed control. All you have to do is rub your fingers together in a pre-specified fashion and you will be tweeting with the best of them.
Mr. Rowberg intends this it be used in the mobile world, as he says that traditional mobile keyboards are “”either too big to be portable, or too small to be easy to use.” Can’t say he is wrong there, that is for sure.
Keyglove is an Arduino and AVR-powered device that features an accelerometer for mouse movements. Also, think of how much you’ll rule at Doodle Jump while wearing this thing.
The creator is still looking for donations so he ..read more
Posted in: Button/Switch, Gloves
Digits conductive pins are the perfect solution for cold weather texting. These pins simply snap on your favorite pair of gloves and, voila, you will no longer type gibberish. Thank goodness for the parent company Quirky for realizing this annoying problem.
They work on most gloves, provided they are knit. Digits don’t go well with leather. Digits are animal friendly, I guess. In any event, these pins are much more convenient than related gloves made for this use, as they can be swapped out for different gloves depending on what color gloves you want to represent your winter gloom.
They are available now for around $14.
Posted in: Gloves, Mobile Phone Technology, Quirky, iPhone Integration, iPod Fashion
Jeff Rowberg has designed the extremely functional Keyglove, which is essentially a wearable keyboard. We’ve certainly profiled some cool gloves in the past, but this may just take the cake. Touchscreens have been all the rage the past few years, but Mr. Rowberg has taken the touchscreen out of the equation and essentially made the entire world into one.
The Keyglove is a portable Arduino/Atmel-powered glove that uses touch combinations for keystrokes and a built-in accelometer for mouse control. Best of all, everything is done using only one glove which leaves your other hand free for sandwich eating and high fives.
The whole thing is intended to work wirelessly with the computing device of your choice. This is just a concept, albeit a working one, for now. Head on over to the ..read more
Posted in: Accessories, Concept Design, Gloves, Tactile Feedback, Technologies, Wearable Computing, Wearable Tech
The war for glove supremacy has been raging for a while now, and now German company Sensosolutions has issued yet another volley. The appropriately titled Sensoglove has been called the “World’s first digital golf glove.” This very well may be true.
The $89 SensoGlove comes packed to the gills with sensors. These sensors purport to continuously read your grip pressure, helping you golfers(and would-be stranglers) out there get the best grip you can get. The data comes back to you in real-time on an included 1.2 inch display screen. The gloves then warn you if you are gripping too tight or making any of the other million mistakes a golfer can make. It even shows which fingers are committing the odious error.
It is available now and could be just the thing ..read more
Posted in: Gloves, Sensosolutions, Sports, Wearable Tech
You know what’s wrong with the current state of gesture control? It is essentially devoid of cool color palettes. Researchers at MIT have noticed this and they are on currently putting their combined brain power on it. These researchers have been experimenting with color-based gesture control, using painted Lycra gloves.
Robert Wang and Jovan Popovic of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory came up with the notion and they are currently running it through its paces. According to the research, gesture simply works better when the tech has some colors to latch on to.
Don’t believe us? Check the video below.
Posted in: Concept Design, Gloves
Industrious designer Steve Hoefer has managed to put the tech in the age old game of rock-paper-scissors. His concept design glove lets you practice the game until your heart is content. How do you practice? By playing by yourself, actually.
Wait, what? It’s true. You perform both moves. The system in the glove then analyzes your game and gives you pointers. Just think. One day you can be the Bobby Fischer of rock-paper-scissors. Just think of the movie they’ll make about your life. It’ll be huge. Huge I tell ya.
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Click here to watch the glove in action. The video will also tell you how to make your own, if you are craft like that.
Posted in: Concept Design, Gloves
