Rock Paper Scissors Playing Glove by Steve Hoefer
I love it when computers can interact with us on our own terms. Keyboards and mice were made so machines could watch what we do. But we have to learn how to use keyboards and mice … so the machines can understand us. But the mouse was invented almost 50 years ago and the keyboard almost 300 years ago. Technology has advanced a lot in that time, and so should our interfaces. We shouldn’t have to learn how to use technology.
So here is a glove that can play Rock Paper Scissors … against a person and the person doesn’t have to learn a thing. Just put the glove on and play and the glove will play against you.
It remembers how you play so that if you always open with Rock it will tend to open with Paper. And if you tend throw a Paper after a Rock it will counter it with Scissors. The glove’s current record for best-of-five matches against me is 71 wins and 62 losses.
It strikes as entirely natural that Hoefer would find inspiration in something playful for a new, very natural Human Computer Interface.
(via Engadget)