AMERICA: A group of people is introducing smartphone gloves to turning them into a remote control for your phone. It’s is a way to control your smartphone with the tap of a finger.
Ben Harris co-founder of Easier to Use said that “Whatever your phone can do, you can control with GoGlove’’. The GoGlove is designed to allow people running, biking, walking or hitting the slopes to use their music, camera, GoPro, or listen to texts by tapping their fingers rather than taking the phone out and manually using it.
Designer Eric Ely said that each sensor controls different functions on the phone when it’s tapped. A Bluetooth part in the glove is connected to sensors in the fingertips, according to GoGlove. The main purpose is to give users more control over their devices. By connecting the gloves to the GoGlove app, the user can set the function that each finger controls.
“It’s a great concept when you’re flying down the mountain and a good song comes on and you kind of get in that moment and that makes everything better,” he explained. “Really we are just trying to make that experience easier to control.”
Harris added that the GoGlove’s Bluetooth module can be removed from the glove and used in warmer weather.
Right now the GoGlove can be preordered for $79, about 40 percent cheaper than it will retail for next year.
