Wearable Mobile Phone Fits Like A Glove, Literally

Talk to the hand -- literally. Users of a new prototype for a mobile phone must talk to their hand to make a call.

Glove One, created by artist Bryan Cera as part of his masters' thesis project, is a mobile phone worn as a mechanical glove. The iron-man-like device allows users to dial out using buttons (located on the underside of the finger attachments) and speak to callers through the receiver on the pinkie.

How do you speak into the receiver, you may be wondering? By making a Y-shape with your hand: Fist clenched, thumb and pinkie outstretched; it's the widely recognized hand sign for "phone."

In the video above, Cera demonstrates how to use the prototype, from inserting a sim card to successfully dialing out.

Cera created the device out of parts from a 3D printer for his thesis project, "Gadgets for Remembering the Future," for the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts. He explained the motivation behind Glove One on his website:

Glove One is a wearable mobile communication device. It presents a futile and fragile technology with which to augment ourselves. A cell phone which, in order to use, one must sacrifice their hand. It is both the literalization of Sherry Turkle’s notion of technology as a

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