We wrote a few months ago about a call for applications to a Department of Homeland Security EMERGE program to develop wearables for first responders. TechNexus, a Chicago "venture collaborative" has picked 13 companies to work with it and DHS: BearTek: wearable tech built into task-specific gloves to wirelessly control devices. Energy Bionics: Develops, manufactures and … [Read more...]
BearTek Bluetooth Gloves
Anyone can make a glove that lets you control your phone by touching it. BearTek gloves let you control devices without even doing that. The globes use a Bluetooth module hidden in the gauntlet of the left glove. You control devices -- smartphone, a GoPro camera -- by touching your thumb to various control points on the glove. There are three models: for snow sports, for … [Read more...]