My little glovey dovey

Loyal readers may remember a post a couple months back about the use of a glove and hand positions to better (and more quickly) communicate with the computer (“Handy I/O”). I hand’t realized this was an active area of research. Jose Luis Hernandez-Rebollar at GWU presented the Accelleglove (pictured left above) at Siggraph last year (MS Doc). In fact, this was the topic of David Sturman’s Ph.D. thesis a decade ago at the MIT Media Lab. It seems the “grab-place-delete” manipulation of objects onscreen depicted in Minority Report was not all that far-fetched. (Motions which, by the way, uncannily resemble those of Neo… er, Keanu… in Johnny Mnemonic.) Can any Dick fans out there tell me if this was the filmmakers or in the original? (Via SiliconValley.com.)