[tips] gloves and technology "wipe" a new spark

Today, gloves not only have a warm function, but also a high-tech carrier. The combination of gloves and high-tech makes people “wipe” more sparks.

Recently, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, invented a low-cost smart glove. This glove can automatically translate American Sign Language into numbers and text that can be displayed on a smartphone or computer. When using such a glove, the wearer only needs to mark the letters in the sign language alphabet and then recognize the letters through different resistance differences. These differences enable the computer to recognize different letters and then transmit the information via Bluetooth without the need for a camera. It is reported that the components in this glove add up to less than 100 US dollars. In the future, this project has great commercial prospects and can be applied to robotic surgery, medical training and games. This kind of low-cost and high-performance gloves will provide a lot of convenience for blind people.

Previously, Japan developed a virtual reality glove that supports haptic feedback. It uses force feedback to achieve physics perception in an immersive environment, provides counteraction to the user's movements, and allows people to truly feel virtual objects. Gloves are combined by a motor to simulate the user's feeling of touching a virtual object. For example, when a virtual spherical object is squeezed to create a illusion of touch, the motor can create resistance between the thumb and the finger. When the user touches different virtual objects and performs actions such as grabbing, pushing and pulling, the gloves generate resistance through the built-in combination motor, thereby providing the user with realistic virtual reality tactile feedback. The exoskeleton design of the glove can effectively prevent the glove from being too loose and losing the immersive feeling when the user experiences, and the curvature of the finger joint and the strength of the finger can be accurately conveyed, so that the user can naturally interact with the virtual object. This glove will not only be used for virtual reality, but it will also be very effective in manipulating robots or helping patients recover.

Similar to tactile feedback virtual reality gloves, it is a touch-sensitive interconnect glove developed at the University of Western Fraser University in Canada. When the finger is bent in one of the gloves, the action is transmitted to the remote partner wearing the other glove. Through the tactile sensor built into the glove, the wearer is allowed to "feel" the change of motion. In order to capture the bending motion, a built-in sensor is connected to the microcontroller. The sensor provides a corresponding value for each bending motion and uses the wireless network wireless module to transmit the value to the "touch" glove. The sensor is also placed on the palm side of the finger to better feel the touch action. Soft switches mounted on both gloves allow either side to initiate a touch action. This glove can help remote lovers share emotions, so that distance is no longer an obstacle to love.

Small gloves meet powerful technology and become a new helper for life. Gloves and technology bring more new experiences to life. (Tian Chen)