Hasta La Gadget!

Last year we saw a fabric oven mitt that looked just like Nintendo’s infamous Power Glove. Pete Hottelet is raising funds on Indiegogo for a very similar product. Also named the Power Mitt, Pete’s take is made of silicone rubber and thus should be more heat-resistant than the other mitt.

As you can see, Pete’s glove also has separate sheaths for each finger making it look more like the original Power Glove.

For now, Pete is only offering right-handed gloves for average-sized hands. He said that if he gets over 1,000 orders through the fundraiser he’ll get a mold for a larger glove, and if he gets over 1,500 orders he’ll make a left-handed glove.

To the privileged right-handed people with perfectly sized hands: let’s help our mutated brethren adorn their weird limbs with a power glove. Pledge at least $39 (USD) on Indiegogo to get a Power Mitt as a reward and combat handedness prejudice.

[via Geekologie]

If you take your smartphone or tablet use serious while you’re out and about, you probably own a pair of gloves that allow you to use your device without needing to slip them off while it’s -70 degrees outside. But if you take your device use really seriously, you might want to take a look at the BearTek Gloves, which allow you to take control of your Bluetooth devices with your fingertips. (more…)

BearTek Gloves Allows Its Wearer To Control Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Devices original content from Ubergizmo.

To promote his company’s muscle sensor, Brian Kaminski of Advancer Technologies built a toy replica of Iron Man’s repulsor glove. All you have to do is curl your fingers to charge it up and then spread them to unleash devastating… tiny flashes of light. It does play a recording of JARVIS spewing polite technobabble, so that’s kind of empowering.

But before you get Tony Stark’s gloves, you have to have a bit of his smarts. This project involves a fair bit of improvising and soldering to complete, including making an Arduino shield that controls the muscle sensor.

I imagine hacks like this will be a lot easier and complex when the MYO arm band is released. But for now head to Instructables if you want to know how to make Advancer Tech’s repulsor glove.

[via Fashionably Geek]

For those of you who live in places where there are four seasons, you know that winter is a time of merriment for some, while others hate wearing layer upon layer of clothes, in addition to having to deal with taking off that glove each time you have to type out a reply to a text message, perhaps this is why there is a growing support for voice input that translates speech into text. Well, perhaps there is an alternative material which could be used to fashion gloves that are friendly for touchscreen display use, and Mujjo’s got your back this time around with a pair of next generation touchscreen gloves. Basically, you are able to make use of your touchscreen without taking off your gloves, now how about that?

Based in the Netherlands, Mujjo, an online start-up who has quite a spin on high-tech conductive gloves, and it enables the wearer to “use all fingertips, knuckles and even the heel or the palm of the hand”. Basically, it does not matter now when you put on the Mujjo, as you will then be able to operate a touchscreen device. In previous seasons, touchscreen winter gloves have always enabled the wearer to operate screens with just a single one or two fingers from each hand. Mujjo’s spanking new touchscreen gloves will be able to provide the wearer with additional options for use, as all the entire areas of the glove are now usable.

It does not matter if you are using a Nokia Lumia, an iPhone, a HTC, LG or Samsung smartphone, the Mujjo gloves would still work with it. Mujjo’s touchscreen compatible winter gloves will play nice with all of the other capacitive touchscreen devices, and how does this magic work? Mujjo gloves were made out of high-quality silver-coated nylon fibers that have been knitted into the fabric of the glove. This particular silver-coated nylon fibers enable the gloves to be conductive and logically speaking, are touchscreen compatible!

You can pick up the Mujjo Touchscreen gloves for €24.95 per pair, and they arrive in a couple of unisex sizes – Small/Medium and Medium/Large, where regardless of the size, they are made of stretchable fibre.

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[ Mujjo unveils next generation touchscreen gloves copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

With TVs getting smarter and computers getting smaller, Internet-connected TVs and home theaters will only become more common. So will peripherals designed to be used for couch computing, like this wireless glove mouse from Thanko.

This silly gadget lets you control a cursor with the movements of your wrist. Two buttons worn on the index finger substitute for the left and right mouse buttons. I know, it looks like a prop from 90′s sci-fi B-movie, but it actually works:

Thanko is selling the wearable mouse for ¥4,980 (~$62 USD). Although the video makes it seem like a fairly useful product, I think the best way to control smart TVs would be to leverage tablets and smartphones with a keyboard/trackpad app. I think using something like this one would be tiring after a while.

[via Akihabara News]