What can I say, I’m a sucker for anything titled “Gauntlet.” This design concept by Du Tran Nguyen, as part of the Australian Design Awards, is… Well, let’s Nguyen describe it:
The Vie (pronounced vee, French word for life) is a sports glove, of which the main objective is to incorporate today’s technologies to enhance human performance and safety via a simple human-machine-interface. The Vie is aimed towards those who keep active by running/walking but its features can easily be spread to other sports. The Vie is a typical health monitor that also uses GPS technology to do such things as map jog routes, rendezvous with friends, send out emergency distress beacons and more. To keep the sport natural, the input is made via a unique, single hand control interface.
Really? Because personally, I’d call it the Power Glove. Because it’s so… Bad*.
Seriously though, while I generally like the idea of having Google Maps pop up on the back of my hand, I’m not sure people are going to start wearing gauntlets again. And by again, I mean, “since the Middle Ages.” What do you guys think? If you could melt an iPod Touch and wrap it around your digits, would you?
[Via Electric Pig]
*See video below, and continue to wonder how that girl knew what a Warp Whistle was: