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‘Magical’ glove reads your writing in the air, keeps vitals in check

Posted By: Bharat BhushanSharma | Sep 19 2009

Interactive interfaces, gloves and other such utility enhancing devices have come real in many good ways and forms, and gearing to make into the ranks this time is a research based fingerless bike glove. Peculiarity that sets this modified glove unique are its embedded 7 electrically sensitive sensors that help tap human hand muscular movements to write individual letters, which can be displayed on the computer screen.

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Recognizing handwriting and displaying it on a computer screen, that’s not as exciting, but do you know, because ‘handwriting consists of memory, knowledge, cognition and dexterity’ these sensory gloves that rely on the aforementioned for functionality, owing to them can also create an early warning system against neurodegenerative diseases, which affect memory and nerve conductions.

According to researchers, when there is some kind of an effect on the memory or the nerves, our handwriting suffers and tends to appear sloppier or slower, the condition can thus be marked as an early symptom to some ailment. But that may just not be a wholesome proof as the brain cannot be actually tamed to guess the muscle movements, it may seem long before we have an actually functional gadget there.

Commercialization of this glove could actually have these reaching medicos and also to geeks, who’ll definitely want to see a Bluetooth enhancement in there, so that they can actual write in the thin air.

Via: Discovery