Wearable computers could provide the muscle memory to learn guitar chords or dance steps
Good Vibrations: By
activating tiny vibration motors in its fingertips, the Mobile Music
Touch glove speeds up the process of learning to play a piano melody.
The glove looks humdrum, like a garment you might pick up at a
sporting-goods store. It’s made of soft black leather and fingerless,
like a cyclist’s or weightlifter’s glove. The similarity is, however,
deceiving.
“I have a glove that can teach you how to play a piano melody,” Thad Starner
declares when I call to chat about the future of wearable computing.
Now a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the technical
lead of Google Glass, he helped pioneer the field in the 1990s as a
student at MIT. “During this conversation, you could have learned
‘Amazing Grace.’ ”
