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Re: Wearable Input Device

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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:14:38 -0400

> > Yes there is! But I can't remember what they're called... I'm sure
> > someone on here remembers them. The one that I remember at the moment
> > has a wrist or palm attachment ( I don't remember), and then it had
> > small things that attached to your finger tips connected by a wire(or
> > something?).

Could it have been this: http://acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/paper/fkm.htm ?

They had one design connected by wires, and another coupled through
the body. Both involved having a lot of stuff mounted on your hands.

You could also use a P5 glove or NES PowerGlove as a source of
resistive bend sensors, and then have a microcontroller detect finger
flexion. Mircea did this, for gesture recognition:
https://securehost34.hrwebservices.net/~magefor/cgi-bin/view/Main/TechnomageGloves

For a really cheap system, there's the keyglove, from
http://www.eyetap.org/wearable/keyglove.html or
http://www.wirejunkie.com/resources/wearable/keyglove/, but if you
don't add an off switch, you may find that grabbing a metal railing
types "rm *".

These previous two approaches mean that you will be wearing gloves
whenever you wear your wearable. This may make some people
uncomfortable, as it removes the bodily contact of a handshake, evokes
clinical connotations (rubber gloves), or invites comparison to the
King of Pop (Michael Jackson).

> > I'm can't remember if that specifc device was ever
> > commercially produced, but I'm sure at least something similar has
> > been.

I don't think the one I linked above was ever commercialized.

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