Apple has registered two new patents detailing the development of a kind of smart gloves with built-in motion sensors.
The first patent was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday and is titled "Items with Cable Actuators."
The second patent is entitled "Interactive and wireless user interface", and details the use of smart gloves that monitor the actions of a person's hands.
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Apple's smart gloves
Apple has focused the second patent entitled "Interactive and wireless user interface" on how to use smart gloves or similar elements. In it, the company of the bitten apple talks about how the hands can have multiple sensitive areas , such as the palm of the hand, the tip of the fingers or their own extension of the same.
Using finger sensors, the gloves would have the possibility to control other devices. These sensors would include the use of accelerometers, gyrometers, touch surfaces, capacitive matrices, and even force sensors . All these sensors would offer all kinds of data to a system to monitor and react to different actions.
In the patent illustrations we see a smart glove next to the screen of a Mac. When detecting the position and movement of the hand, as well as the proximity of the fingers with respect to the palm of the hand, the gloves would allow users to perform aerial gestures to control Mac software.
The patent has been devised by the authors Paul X. Wang, Zheng Gao, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, and Ray L. Chang. What do you think about these smart gloves? Do you think that current technology is ready for this type of wearables?
The Apple article patents futuristic tactile and motion sensor gloves was first published on iPadizate.
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