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Vie GPS Sports Glove Does it All
Posted by Sean Fallon at 9:20 AM on February 12, 2008
Designer Du Tran Nguyen envisions the Verva Vie Sports Glove as the ultimate piece of sporting equipment. Like many current products, the Vie would allow users to use GPS to develop workouts, map routes, and send out distress beacons. However, this concept takes those technologies a step further by offering and interface that can be controlled with one hand thanks to strain gauges embedded in the glove fingers that interact with an E-ink screen.
The designer suggests that the Vie could also be used in other sports to communicate plays or to share information with other athletes with a simple handshake. Since safety a primary concern, one application of this technology would be to share health information with training partners. If a user is in danger, a distress signal could be sent to other gloves, or directly to the police or hospital in the case of a serious emergency. Since the device would also be monitoring vitals, this would even include SOS signals at the first signs of heart failure—a good thing considering that you will probably be around 90 by the time this thing sees the light of day. In the meantime the Garmin Forerunner 405 would be a suitable substitute. [Design Awards via Gizmowatch via Gearfuse]
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HeartBurnKid
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
"I love the Power Glove... it's so bad!"
HeartBurnKid
Mandatory_Field
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
"And the strain gauges in the fingers could monitor certain repetitive motions of the hand, and vital signs; to know when to display porn via the e-ink display, using the innovative one-handed interface."
Mandatory_Field
ripfire4
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
@ideaman2020: "I mean, sure, it looks great on the mannequin, but what about soft, bending human flesh..? "
Du Tran Nguyen: "Uhhh. Human flesh? Ummm... About that..."
ripfire4
zenpoet
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
Love the idea, and wait for the day this can be implemented in such a manor as to be feasible. Sports gear has to be very tough, so I am not going to spend $300 large on a gadget that is going to bust the first time a jog by a fence and rip the screen off.
zenpoet
ideaman2020
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
Is it just me or does this look kind of ... solid.. for a "sports glove"?
I mean, sure, it looks great on the mannequin, but what about soft, bending human flesh..?
ideaman2020
nosauten
Posted 10:51 AM 12/2/08
Makes you look like you came straight out of Anime
nosauten
pipichua
Posted 12:11 PM 12/2/08
"buzz lightyear?"
pipichua
matto
Posted 12:11 PM 12/2/08
O damn, this dude invented the PowerGlove
matto
drwedge
Posted 12:11 PM 12/2/08
"Vie GPS Sports Glove Does it All"... maybe, but, does it get you the ladies?
I mean look at that thing. It doesn't scream smart and sophisticated. Rather, it shouts: "I'm 40 and live in my mother's basement, wanna come over for a rousing game of pong?"
drwedge
liquidsoapdispenser
Posted 3:30 PM 12/2/08
But is it washable? I know when I wore a wrist brace for awhile, it got pretty stinky.
liquidsoapdispenser
gadgetfanatic
Posted 6:10 PM 12/2/08
Will it blend?™
gadgetfanatic
tamoko
Posted 12:25 AM 13/2/08
Evangelion...saw it last week.
tamoko
w00zzy
Posted 1:46 AM 13/2/08
Question, does it have a vibration function with lub dispenser? I'm just asking.
w00zzy
Y2KGTP
Posted 3:06 AM 13/2/08
what's with the "will you be my buddy" thing? Is that more like.....will you share your media?
Y2KGTP
Somaxman
Posted 8:35 AM 13/2/08
But why are they shaking their LEFT hands on the third picture?
Somaxman