tranced Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: > 500 From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland PM |
Amid all of the high-tech gadgetry to appear at IFA this past week were a few smaller developers whose products broke through the chatter, like Hi-Fun with its phone call glove.
The Hi-Call gloves are a pair of wool-knit bluetooth hand-socks with built in hardware for making phone calls. The speaker is in the thumb and the mic is in the pinky.
That's right, the imitation hand-motion for phone call has become a method for making real phone calls.
Engadget managed to get some hands-on (it couldn't be helped, I'm sorry) with the gloves at IFA last week, and it looks like, at a base level, they work. How well they work is another story.
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