Multicolored glove for gesture recognition

Submitted by Sek Chai

Researchers at MIT have developed a user interface system that detects gestures using a multicolored glove and a standard webcam. The glove has 20 uniquely shaped patches in 10 different colors, which allow the gesture recognition software to understand the front and back of the hand. The arrangement of the color patches are also chosen so that similarly-colored patches would "rarely collide with each other". More information is available in a press release.