[Wear-Hard] Yet another Sony UX based Wearable

[Brian Kuriyama]

No no no! The point of a glove is to be very unobtrusive while still keeping
full control of your system, literally, at your fingertips! The point of
real gloves is to protect your hands from the elements and other hazards, or
for fashion reasons right? Why can't wearable input devices do the same? Why
wouldn't you be able to timeshare your hands with the wearable input gloves
as you would regular gloves? I'm sure I can't pick my nose (or would want
to) with either glove on hand, but I mean, I'd still be able to type on a
real keyboard, I'd still be able to use a real mouse, I'd still be able to
shake hands with someone, and I'd still be able to retain about 90% of my
regular hand's usage. Granted, I wouldn't want to use the bathroom with them
on, but that's the beauty of them! They're just gloves! I'd be able to pull
them off, do my business, and just as simply put them back on and resume my
regular daily activities.

Just today I was vacuuming my car and realized that if I had my ideal system
with me, I'd be able to chat with friends, while vacuuming the car without
pausing my duties at all! Apply that to a real job and possibilities branch
out from there!

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John McKown <john_mckown at chordite.com>wrote:

> I agree, Brian; it's important that wearable systems be able to
> disappear as quickly and gracefully as possible whenever social
> situations dictate.  Ideally they're stealthy.  Minimally they're
> stowable.
>
> Gloves aren't so good that way.  One normally timeshares one's hands
> second by second without thinking.  A glove would need a tremendous
> amount of putting on and taking off even if it was wireless.
>
> =========================================================
> Brian Kuriyama wrote:
> > @ Steve:
> > Nope! I want as little wires as possible! I've discovered that when
> > removing the system due to social situations and whatnot, the
> > restriction of wires makes things awkward and clumsy. Even my HMD that
> > has only one wire that goes from my backpack to glasses is cumbersome!
> > If my system is going to get daily use, it needs to be easily put on
> > and taken off at a moments notice. The input devices need to work
> > together just as smoothly, which is why bluetooth is my wireless
> > protocal of choice!
> >
> > While that touchpad remote is quite intriuging it's much too large for
> > me to consider for my system. Good idea though! Before I discovered
> > the issue with the wires, I was going to have a belt mounted hub going
> > to all my systems, and possibly wire up a pair of jeans or cargo pants
> > with USB and use an extremely effective (no bezel), tiny USB touchpad.
> > More and more though, I'm starting to like my mouse gloves idea
> > though. I don't want to have to pick up another device just to use my
> > system. If I were to do that, why not just use a G1 like you mentioned
> > in your reply!!
>
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