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Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove For One-Handed Typing
An anonymous reader writes "Clove 2 is a bluetooth dataglove used for one-handed typing. It uses a 31-combination finger-chording design with three modes to allow every key on a standard keyboard to be typed with minimal effort. The bluetooth functionality removes the need to tether it to a computer, and since it profiles as a standard HID Keyboard, a simple translation layer to perform key remapping, sticky modifiers, and mode switching is the only software required. It consists of three components: the glove itself, the bluetooth module, and a custom charger for the Bluetooth module. Video, pictures, and full plans and schematics on the project page." From that page: "Please be advised that the Clove 2 Bluetooth Dataglove is a personal project, not a commercial offering." I hope that gets corrected at some point!
Watching the video, it does look kind of cool. Reminds me a bit of the Twiddler2, which I sort of admire also. Two things stop me from getting one, though:
(1) If I have to hit more than one button per character that's going to slow me down a lot, and
(2) what about using vi (or any other pro editor)?
Caveat Utilitor
But I hadn't realized it had become such a problem that someone had to invent a one-handed typing glove.
Careful What You Wish For....
This means cybersex will be THAT MUCH EASIER!!!
Just need to figure out how to maximize the potential of my left hand while the right hand is otherwise occupied.
What am I supposed to do with my other hand, if I may be so bold to ask?
What?
...are going to be all kinds of classy. I'm sure the one-handed typing is for the disabled... yeah, i'm going to stick with that.
that only the "Wizard" could love! (Cmon, Late 80's folks, you know what I'm talking about!).
Sig it.
I love the power clove. It's so bad.
But can it control an NES? Is it as bad as the power glove?
Geek Factor: A+
Functionality: B-
Aesthetics: F
Better known as 318230.
Hey guys these devices have been around for a while. See Steve Mann's DIY septambic keyer project. More info on keyers.
Do any of you remember the Nintendo powerglove? Now that was the pinnacle of interface design IMHO!!!
That is a pair of Thompson eyephones, not an Apple iPhone.
How is this chording? I thought a chording system was where you had a few buttons and then each letter was assigned to a number of those buttons you have to press at once to get the letter (just like playing a chord on a piano). This seems to be a system where you make a connection between 2 contacts to make a letter - or did I miss something?
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
And I usually need two hands - any soft thin input device that I can put around my right nipple area?
Just think, if you use this with your left hand you can hold your dick in your right hand!!
"One-Handed Typing," eh? Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
as a staff member on the personal website of the guy who developed this, I've been following its development for at least a year and a half, and I'd like to heartily congratulate him on a job well done.
Yeah he could have made it uglier, I mean if you are going to make some thing that ugly at least make it really fucking ugly like you meant to do that!
Personally I would have made it look like a zombie hand with replaceable digits that make a sickly sound or flesh falling of the bones...
catch was "Organs"
When did they add a toilet?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Mirror, in case it goes down: http://www.cemetech.net.nyud.net/projects/item.php?id=16 And the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYXVf_6nsGQ
I've lost count of the number of non-querty input devices and methods I've seen, but none of them have made a dent in usage of the querty keyboard. I suspect this is mainly down to the fact that people just don't want to learn a new system. These guys try to side-step that by saying the glove is for situations in which you can't use a keyboard, but really - is there anything wrong with voice control in most adverse situations? I suppose maybe combat or physical disability, but hmm.
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
Now the inventor of the Dvorak keyboard will have some company in Gazillionaire Land.
No mod points, no meta-moderating/Firehose/all the other free work Slashdot wants me to do.
I would think the frogpad has already more efficiently implemented a one-handed typing solution that doesn't require a glove.
Its = possessive. It's = "it is"
The page is allready slashdotted, why don't you create some cache for linked articles, in most cases it contain few kb of text, it wouldn't be a problem....
The Power Glove?!?!?! Makes me want to go and beat up Fred Savage for some reason, and make a lot of inappropriate 80s references...
http://www.senseboard.com/index.php
Senseboard develops and manufactures a wearable
data entry platform to enable users of mobile
communications systems to effectively input
text or data in practically any environment.
I'm using a twiddler2 to type this. It is great for coding especially since you don't need to speedtype. This data glove misses the point. Look at how far his fingers have to move, mine barely have to move to type. But here's the most important part... mouse! I can do EVERYTHING with my left hand, which is great because my righty gets irritated fast from way too many years using a mouse and typing hard with no breaks.
Here's the problem though, the twiddler sucks! I love it except it breaks every month and they need to send me a new one. That was sorta okay for awhile, but now some supplier stopped making a component and I am using a broken one because they're out. Also the form is not contoured enough. It is okay, but they could redesign it to fit the human hand much better.
Look, keyboards suck, and lots of hackers now have RSI. So we need a real solution, now. Please someone take the idea of the twiddler2 and make it better? But unlike this glove, you need to design it to have the smallest requirement of hand movement possible, and use one hand to do both keys and mouse. The twiddler2 is sooooo close to being amazing. But it needs some actual research and design of a large corporation not some garage operation.
Logitech, Microsoft, someone... please wake up and produce this. I'll pay $2,000 for one if it had a 10-year replacement warranty.
Also, every time I post Anonymously I never get anyone seeing what I write. So please mod this up if you can, I don't have an account, I just like to read the site.
ASL?
Handheld devices that need most these alternative to traditional keyboards.
> Aesthetics: F
I love the Power Glove! It's so bad!
Finally we can IRC while coding! (by using 2 of these gloves)
About 6 months after the kitchen sink.
Humans are very dextrous and expressive tool users. Our brains excel at feedback with an object we manipulate, especially with our hands, to get what's on our minds out there in the world.
We're not nearly as good at just waving our hands, with nothing in them, to communicate, as we are at flapping our lips. Our hand gestures are much more precise and accurate when they've got something to feel moving with or against them. So I expect that these gloves will not nearly compete with decent keyboards for productivity.
Except that the gloves can signal more than a single letter at a time, in more complex gestures. If keyboards could recognize those macros in a more complex language, the keyboard would blast ahead again.
Apple's multitouch is just that chance for complex gestures. A keyboard and a multitouch screen, or a keyboard that can be twiddled like a multitouch screen and a plain multitouch screen, are probably the most productive input devices that aren't sharply limited like joysticks.
Now, if these gloves had real force feedback and texture, so the hands could work against and within the gloves, then maybe they'd compete well with other objects that we manipulate with our hands, instead of empty gestures. But they'd still probably be even better if we could hold or touch a real, interactive object with our hands inside those gloves.
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make install -not war
... of a time I was speaking in front of a group of magazine publishers. They were worried about the effect of the Internet on their print publications and if there were subscription models for their Web sites that might work. I said that, at the time, there were two primary examples of subscription models for traditional print publications: WSJ.com and Playboy.com and that Playboy's model has been so successful that they were able to cut back on their print run. Then I paused and said, "Playboy.com ... the sound of one hand typing ..." Half of the room laughed. The other half looked veeerrrrry uncomfortable ;)
Bark less. Wag more.
The next part is to make a teaching program so easy everyone can do it.
This reminds me of a device from back in the late '70's called the "Write-hander" which looked a little bit like a mouse with buttons under the fingers and some mode switches under the thumb. It was a pretty good solution for people limited to one hand typing (amputations, paralyis, etc..), but it lacked durability and was harder to learn than the conventional keyboard.
I hope something like this gets more useful over the years.
"The mind works quicker than you think!"
Cool idea, but it still takes on hand to type. Gimme a grillI can type with from the tip of the tongue.
Although at this point if you're gonna use your mouth to type text you might as well go with speech-recognition, however you could use that for when you can't speak (a trooper trying to be silent, a kid at school txting) or when the environment is too noisy.
Clove 2 guy, rob da electronics store n make yaself a grill! (sorry, I had to)
You just got troll'd!
I'm not sure if Bluetooth tranmissions are allowed on a plane.
w00t
About 6 months after the kitchen sink.
I'll use Emacs as soon as it gets a decent text editor.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Ctrl Alt Del simultaneously???
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I'm reminded of Steve Hoggarth, lead singer of Marillion, who had a pair of MIDI gloves. These allowed for small keyboard parts to be played on any surface, like a sheet of glass or a bandmate's shoulder. later on he gave up the gloves and started playing a cricket bat instead.
The inventor of the Forth programming language was using one of these 20 years ago -- maybe more. His was better than this.
JM
There's a scene in the beginning of the movie where a kid uses something very similar to this with his tiny portable computer/communications device.
The comments above exhibit one of the many wonderful things about alternative keyboards; absolutely everyone is an expert on them.
Experience? Don't need it! Everything looks exactly like everything else? No problem! Myopic? All the better! Sit right down and tell us how it really is.