Take the glove … musical

A couple of years ago, a young Italian engineer and musician named Shaduz managed to develop a cordless glove called 3DID Glove that made it possible to reproduce notes and sounds on a computer only by gesturing with the hands. Simultaneously, at Stanphord University, Zhi Yun Luang was making a musical glove, the Blue Glove , which was used to play the piano, the guitar, and a strange Chinese instrument called a pipe, similar to the western lute. And recently, researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands, created the Gesture Jam Glove , another interactive glove that transforms hand movements into music, but also allows images and multimedia to be handled at the touch of a finger.

These are just a few examples of how haptic technology – that which explores the use of touch as a means of interaction with machines and computers – could change the musical landscape of the future. Although in all cases the handling of gloves requires learning , the researchers assure that composing with these tools will be much more intuitive. In addition to that it will facilitate the creative work of DJs.

A piano in your hands

To put this technology to the test with basic features, you don’t even have to wait. If your thing is to compose music and the melodies emerge at any time while you are at home, at work or taking a walk, you may be interested in having the Piano Hands on hand, two neoprene gloves plugged into a speaker in which each finger corresponds to a note. To change the octave, just tap with the base of your hand on any surface. And when it comes to reproducing the sound, you can choose between 8 instruments: piano, organ, violin, trumpet, mandolin, music box, guitar or drums. Pianos Hands are recharged with a USB, and are for sale at I want one of tose.com .