In these gloves, you are one with your music

What do you get when you cross an enterprising and talented musician with a hardware hacker? For starters, you get Imogen Heap, a UK musician who wants to change how we interact with our equipment when producing and performing music . She says,

Fifty percent of a performance is racing around between various instruments and bits of technology on stage. I wanted to create something where I could manipulate my computer on the move wirelessly so that music becomes more like a dance rather than a robotic act like pressing a button or moving a fader.

And that's what she's doing. She's created a pair of technical gloves called Mi.Mu that use a series of sensors to can be connected to standard audio equipment to manipulate sound. Any budding musician that has crouched over his/her digital audio equipment fiddling with knobs, sliders, and faders ought to see the advantage in a new interface that allows you to express your music by moving your body, as well as the potential advantages in a stage performance.

Is this a more interesting future for the coming world of wearable computers and technology? And beyond hands, what can we do with this kind of technology?