Wearable Tech 8: Gadget Gloves

Summary: Give your fingers some extra functionality with these geeky gloves.

By Eileen Brown for Social Business | September 14, 2012 -- 12:19 GMT (05:19 PDT)

Follow @eileenb

The Thimble

Finger glove worn on the index finger, equipped with an optical scanner on its tip.

To read information, the wearer moves the index finger over the matter to be read which is scanned and connects through Bluetooth to mobile phones.

Created by Erik Hedberg and Zack Bennet.

Credit: Design Launches

Wearable Tech: LED

Wearable Tech 2: Fiber Optics

Wearable Tech 3: Accessories

Wearable Tech 4: Clever Clothing

Wearable Tech 5: Lasers

Wearable Tech 6: Future Tech

Wearable Tech 7: Circuit Chic

Topic: Emerging Tech

Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily email newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.

Talkback

3 comments

Log in or register to join the discussion

Why were a glove...

when you can simply wave your bare hands in front of a camera? This is a wasted effort.

Between semi-passive optical motion capture (like XBox Kinect) and the current crop of input devices, this has no placement.

Semi-passive optical motion capture will only get better, they should be working on that instead.