Industrial design collaboration

With the first two prototypes completed, we had to consider options on how to proceed towards the final product. While we could have strapped off-the-shelf boxes to an ordinary glove, something more elegant was desired, so the call went out for an industrial designer.

Here we found designer duo Christophe Vaillant and Ruth Weber, who were given the task of designing a glove with compartments to hold all the electronics, as well as a carrier for the sensors to be fixed to the fingers. Here’s a pic of an intermediate version:

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Working with them was inspiring, also because we’re both into “desktop manufacturing”. E.g. for the sensor carriers they built their own deep drawing machine powered by a hoover:

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(The pictures are theirs)