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Snowboard Glove Concept Controls Your iPod via Non-Romantic Gestures
Posted by Jason Chen at 4:17 AM on November 3, 2007
This is a demonstration of the previously seen iPod glove control concept, allowing snowboarders to control their music without reaching into a pocket and fiddling with the not-made-for-gloves Click Wheel. As you can see, different combinations of finger presses bring up tracks in Postal Service's serviceable studio album, which look like an awkward thing to do while you're trying to avoid being tree'd. The upshot is we'd hate to fall, try and catch ourselves, and accidentally turn up the volume with an unintended gesture and blast out our ears. [YouTube]
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hughjass
Posted 8:13 PM 2/11/07
@auger282:
And now you're deciding exactly what commands this not-yet-invented voice recognition system would respond to in order to defend your opinion. I don't know whether to laugh or... well, laugh. Lighten up a bit, kiddo!
hughjass
auger282
Posted 4:30 PM 2/11/07
@hughjass:
"Volume up, Volume up, volume up"x12 will not be as easy as mistakenly touching to fingers together for 3 seconds...
auger282
Y2KGTP
Posted 4:19 PM 2/11/07
Wonder how well this works when it actually gets wet?
Might as well tape a shuffle inside a ziploc bag to the glove.
Y2KGTP
longshot
Posted 4:16 PM 2/11/07
I think the main contact button should be on one hand, and the other buttons you activate on the other, so when you fall, you don't accidentally trip shit. And is reaching over to tap the top of your other glove very obtrusive?
longshot
netcretin
Posted 3:47 PM 2/11/07
How we gonna wipe our snot?
netcretin
Ideapimp
Posted 3:42 PM 2/11/07
It's like the Nintendo Power Glove only it sucks. Oh wait, it's like the Nintendo Power Glove.
Ideapimp
hughjass
Posted 3:27 PM 2/11/07
@auger282:
"seems like it would be a whole lot easier and hard to blow your ears out from multi-inadvertent-button-pressing"
And if it misunderstood what you said when you tried to tell it the volume level? I think the chances are equally as bad.
hughjass
auger282
Posted 3:06 PM 2/11/07
why don't they just make something that has voice recognition? so you can put the mic on your jacket and give you audio feedback over your headset... seems like it would be a whole lot easier and hard to blow your ears out from multi-inadvertent-button-pressing
or better yet.. make snowboard headphones/earmuffs/headband that have a lil mic built in for such an application.. then you would just have to plug in the headset for the functionality and it would all be built into the headset line....
auger282
robman84
Posted 2:52 PM 2/11/07
Looks disturbignly like a sock puppet I had as a kid
robman84
ANoel
Posted 2:37 PM 2/11/07
Like ... who's gonna manage that on a snoboard without a spliff holder in the other glove?
Gotta pic?
ANoel
Pope John Peeps II
Posted 2:29 PM 2/11/07
"Serviceable?"
And this is why we do not go to Giz for music criticism.
Pope John Peeps II