You might know, from previous posts, that I’m working with different kinds of push-to-talk (PTT) activation solutions. One of those is the PTT glove, which I will present at the Intelligent Environments Conference next week (07/21/08).

Today, we just got the first media attention event for the glove: it is featured on a very interesting blog about wearable computing, talk2myshirt.com/blog.

This blog came to my attention, while I was searching the web for commercial glove interaction solutions. The site has a very nice collection of these products. I like it, that wearable IT accessories are neatly categorized: gloves, hats, shoes, skirts, etc, even ties!

This may sound like a cliché, but it’s always good to communicate with other bloggers, professionals, researchers, etc. If I’m not aware of other solutions similar to mine, I might think that I invented PTT gloves, but it’s always good to get a reality check by seeing if anyone else had a similar idea before. Communication can also help co-operate with others and figure out what the real problems of a particular field of research are.

A good contra-example for this is the Miss Universe event. How can we have a Miss Universe, when only humans participate? Did we research all possibilities of life on other planets (not just in the Solar system) before declaring a human to be Miss Universe? What would the Klingons have to say about this (if they exist/ed)?

Oszkar Palinko

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