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Peregrine Overpowers the Power Glove, May Actually Work

Dan Nosowitz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Like the beloved Nintendo Power Glove, Peregrine is essentially a glove-shaped controller, though for the PC this time. It can recognize about 30 gestures (touching a finger to thumb, or finger to palm, for example) and recognize them as hotkeys.

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Peregrine is manufactured by a company also named Peregrine, and their namesake USB glove was shown off this year at E3, featuring a removable USB "pod" on the top of the hand (see above pic) that makes it easy to disconnect the glove before removing it from your hand. It's due for release in late fall 2009 at a $129 price point, though it's not available for pre-sale at the moment. It might work well for certain MMORPGs, enabling quick casting of spells or whatever goes on in those games as a sort of numpad alternative. Those who've used it say it actually works quite well and doesn't feel flimsy, so despite its relatively high pricetag it might find a niche audience. [PC Mag]

Nintendo Power Glove Updated With Accelerometer, Bluetooth, Irony

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Instructables has a great hack to turn an old Power Glove, that triumph of silliness, into an Arduino-controlled, Bluetooth-and-accelerometer-sporting modern peripheral.

The new and much-improved Power Glove is positioned as kind of a 20th anniversary present to the original Glove. The video below gives a pretty detailed instruction for how to tear apart your own Power Glove, presuming you can find one, and also shows him using it with an iPhone boxing game he's developing.

Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo.

Finally, the future looks like we imagined it would in 1989. [Instructables, creator's blog]

Classic NES Power Glove Tattoo

Mark Wilson — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:45:36 EDT

We thought we were over looking at tattoos on the Internet. Then Kotaku posts this Power Glove masterpiece. We might have to say it...can't resist the cliché...but trying so hard...

Best. Tattoo. Ever.

What just happened? We blacked out for a minute and someone stole our wallet/pride. [kotaku]

You Have the Power: Wii Powerglove

Jason Chen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:00:50 EDT

Taking us all back to the first time Fred Savage was a star, this Wii Power Glove takes an already nerdy thing (the Wii) and makes it even nerdier. The modder went and stuck a Wii on a powerglove, complete with finger switches to activate the A and B buttons and black paint job to match the Powerglove's sweet, sweet stylings.

No gripes with this one. Just a hardy job well done to a Japanese nerd.

– Jason Chen

Japanese Hacker Designs Powerglove Wiimote [Maxconsole via Technabob via Crunchgear]

USB NES Controllers

Jason Chen — Tue, 09 May 2006 07:50:16 EDT

Retro NES emulation gamers may want to make their play time more authentic with these USB NES Controllers. With USB versions of the standard NES controller, the Joystick, the PowerPad, the Four Score, and even the Power Glove, twenty and thirty-something hipsters will attempt to relive their childhood in all its 8-bit glory.

This USB-ification isn't cheap though—the RetroPad starts at $30 and the RetroGlove weighs in at $70. All your memories (and money) are belong to them.

USB Nintendo NES Controllers [Retro Zone via Uncrate]