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Lady’s Glove - probably the worlds first interactive glove
Lady’s Glove - probably the worlds first interactive glove
Gloves with integrated sensors, adding various functions to the finger tips have surfaced over the past few years in large numbers but to my amazement I found a sensory enhanced glove, created by Laetitia Sonami, a composer, performer and sound installation artist back in 1991! Created for a ...
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Interactive Lady’s glove extremely dexterous and useful
Gizmo Watch — ... tips, the gloves have a magnet on the right hand – which when touched by the finger tips generate signals converted into MIDI signals through synthesizers and samplers. In addition the Lady’s glove features microswitches on the finger ends for tactile control, bend sensors to measure finger inclination and sonar ranging to emitters on the shoe and the opposite arm. Lady’s glove is a great embodiment of multiple and parallel controls, via gestures and touch. Via: Sonami/Talk2myShirt

A musical Lady’s glove
Gizmodiva.com — ... and the height of the left hand. Some additional sensors of the Lady’s Glove include five micro switches, a mercury switch on the top of the hand and an accelerometer which measuring the speed of motion of the hand. The signals from all these sensors are send to STEIM’s Sensor lab which conditions them and convert the signals into MIDI format to feed into various synthesizers and samplers. This is exactly what I am talking about. This is technology back in the 90’s. Amazing eh? [Talk2myshirt]

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