How to Make the iPhone's Touch ID Work With Gloves
It’s cold and with what feels like an eternity of wintery weather ahead of us, it’s most definitely glove-wearing season.
These Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves
Gloves that work on touchscreen devices are nothing new—they’ve existed almost as long as smartphones have. But gloves that can unlock a mobile device that’s protected with a fingerprint reader? It might be a solution to a first world problem, but it’s a problem we’re happy is solved.
Hadoken Your Foes With a Pair of Over-Sized Ryu Street Fighter Fists
If your weekend plans include stopping by PAX South in San Antonio, you might want to a make a beeline for Capcom’s booth to get your hands on—and in—these over-sized plush Ryu fists that let you Hadoken and Shoryuken anyone who dares cross you.
What To Wear In The Jungle
I just got back from a week-long camping trip in a hot, humid, torrentially rain-flooded jungle. With a few missteps, I managed to stay dry and comfortable throughout. Here’s what I learned and how you can maximize comfort and performance in this difficult environment.
Everyone Will Fill a Baseball Glove Flask With Gatorade, Right?
We haven’t solved world hunger, and peace on a global scale isn’t happening anytime soon, but if there’s one thing humanity has mastered, its finding a way to smuggle booze. So if you play baseball, or just enjoy watching America’s pastime from the stands, it’s time to upgrade your glove to the Glask which features a…
11 Nostalgic Gifts For The Lumbersexual Outdoorsman
Many new things suddenly look old again. Especially outdoors, where many brands have been resurrecting the simple designs and bold colors of the 1970s and 1980s and applied them to modern technology. Here's 11 gifts that look old, but work like new.
Hashtag Gloves :(
There are gloves called Hashtag Gloves. If you make a hashtag symbol with your fingers and then speak, the gloves will tweet what you say. They are, objectively, the worst gloves.
You Can Hide This Glove Foam Dart Launcher In Plain Sight
Walk into a room carrying a toy blaster and everyone assumes you're going to start spraying foam darts in their direction, giving them time to duck. But walk into a room wearing what looks like just a fingerless glove and everyone will assume you're some kind of rebel, and they certainly won't suspect a barrage of six…
These Hard Suit Power Gloves Give You the Grip of a Kraken
Lobsters never took over the world because their claws are terrible at grasping. It's the same reason deep sea divers, especially those that venture so far down that they require Atmospheric Dive Suits to keep from imploding, have such difficulty manipulating their tools at depth—the suits' conventional lobster-like…
Nike's New Baseball Glove Comes Already Broken In
Nike's new Vapor 360 fielding glove is specially designed to be used "straight out of the box," according to Nike. Forget stashing it under your mattress for weeks until the leather loosens up—this glove is broken in from day one.
​Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Motorcycle Safety Gear
Capable of keeping you dry when it's wet, cool when it's hot, warm when it's cold and alive in a crash, motorcycle safety gear is the most advanced apparel this side of a space suit.
Win A Pair Of Del Rosario Resistor Gloves
We're giving away a pair of Del Rosario Resistor Gloves!
​Articulated Hand Armor Makes These The Safest Gloves Ever
Traditional gloves sacrifice outright protection for hands from crushing, abrasion and falls in order to retain freedom of movement and tactile feel. These new gloves from a Manhattan start up aim to fix that.
Control VR Mitts Are Like the Powerglove You Always Wanted
So let's say you've got your Oculus Rift headset on and it's pretty awesome, but what could make it more immersive? How about looking down and seeing your hands. There are already some (sorta janky) solutions to that problem, but Control VR's new glove controllers look like the best so far.
Defend your hands against the cold with these dragon mittens
Winter isn't coming quite yet in the Northern Hemisphere, but it isn't too early to think about staving off the chill. What better way to keep your hands warm than with a pair of dragon mittens?
Throwback Gloves That Take You Out To the Ballgames of Yesterday
Some would argue that professional baseball of past eras was a simpler and purer version of the game, free from controversies like player strikes or steroid use. And this line of Shoeless Joe throwback gloves, that recreate designs from as far back as 1910, could help you relive those times—even if they're named after…
Would you want a phone's Bluetooth in your glove instead of your ear?
Did you ever watch Inspector Gadget and wish you could talk on your phone simply by sticking out your thumb and pinky finger? Designer Sean Miles of Designworks suggests that gloves are the perfect place to keep your phone's wireless microphone and receiver.
Color-Changing Gloves Alert Lab Workers To Invisible Toxins
The trickiest part of avoiding exposure to toxic substances is that they're often invisible, odorless, and undetectable to our five senses. And as an alternative to expensive detectors and other electronic sensors, researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT in…
Turn Signal Gloves Vastly Increase Your Chances Of Surviving an Urban Bike Ride
Your average motorist is more used to sharing the road with other vehicles than cyclists. So instead of just relying on your arms to safely signal an upcoming turn, consider these $42 turn signal gloves which let both cyclists and motorists alike know where you're headed.
Secret Elixir Makes Any Glove Touchscreen-Friendly
By now it's almost impossible to find a winter glove that doesn't work with touchscreen devices. But if you've got a favorite pair that predates the iPhone, this AnyGlove potion will let you use them with a touchscreen display without having to resort to sewing conductive thread onto the fingertips.
