Gaming Support Glove Mystifies, Thrills

jasoncart writes "Have gaming accessories gone too far? According to a Ferrago review, the Danish company Steelpad have manufactured a gaming support glove, designed to be used with a mouse to get maximum accuracy in your favourite FPS. I wonder if it will go the way of the Power Glove?" The review says that the glove claims it "...will improve your accuracy by reducing the friction between the base of your wrist and whatever surface it comes into contact with. It will also give support to your wrist through its snug fit and the stiffness of the wrist band."

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Old Idea

[DarkZero]

Gaming gloves are actually a very old idea. Back in the NES/SNES days, several third party accessory manufacturers sold thick fingerless gloves with some kind of material on the palms to improve your grip. I think it was originally supposed to save you some hand pain while using controllers designs that had sharp edges, such as the original NES controller, but they continued through into the 16-bit era as a tool for reducing hand sweat.

They seemed to die out around the PlayStation's debut, though, and for a reason that still mystifies me: For some reason, my hands never sweat while using the Dual Shock controller. In fact, I can't remember any of my friends having to stop and wipe their hands off on their pants during a gaming session since that time.

You know what might be sweet?

[Anonymous Coward]

A glove with reference points that used a web cam to compute hand-gestures which could then be animated in game.

I know stuff like that exists at least at the undergrad project level. But for squad based games especially that would be pretty tight.