'Rock Paper Scissors' Glove Will Beat You Good (VIDEO)

The old standby game 'rock paper scissors' has gotten a modern, tech-savvy twist: For those who are serious about the game, 'Glove Hacker' Steve Hoefer has created a wired glove that will allow people to play 'rock paper scissors' on their own.

As Geekosystem reports, the glove sports a motion detector and flex sensors on the middle and ring fingers that read what gesture has been played. The glove displays its own move on a small screen and will keep track of who's winning--(wo)man or machine.

The game not only keeps score but remembers how you play and will learn your style in order to defeat you.

On Hoefer's website, he further breaks down the components of his glove. For the flex sensors, Hoefer used the same sensors from Nintendo's Power glove and his accelerometer is similar to the type used in Wii Remotes and iPhones.

To see the glove in action, check out the video below.

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Comments

[olddognewtrick]

09:58 PM on 03/13/2010

With all of the unemployed comedy writers...Does it come with some motion lotion?

[filo]

09:51 AM on 03/12/2010

I don't think I would use that glove to play with myself.

[jcko]

12:24 PM on 03/12/2010

It's like washing hands w/ latex gloves on.

[StansDad]

12:28 PM on 03/12/2010

scissors sounds painful

[jcko]

02:34 PM on 03/12/2010

Wait until you get slammed by a rock. Ouch!

[WebCommoner]

08:51 AM on 03/12/2010

I think there's an app for that.

[StAlphonso]

08:08 AM on 03/12/2010

Something tells me it will stay in a somewhat relaxed "rock" position most of the time.

[Mikeeee]

07:56 AM on 03/12/2010

"Glove let's you play with yourself" and "Will beat you good"
Sounds like an ad perfectly suited to a conservative.

[therblig]

07:55 AM on 03/12/2010

can it be upgraded to play rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock?

[jcko]

12:24 PM on 03/12/2010

There is a pocket billard option.

[mcarlsonus]

07:19 AM on 03/12/2010

I'll give 'em one thing: at least it ain't another tedious, useless iPhone app!

[NightEditor]

06:33 AM on 03/12/2010

Don't think you need a glove for that.

[jcko]

12:25 PM on 03/12/2010

You don't live in Canada.

[Harvee Wallbanger]

05:38 AM on 03/12/2010

Hmm, how do we know the microprocessor isn't deciding its move until after it decides what we've done? Too easy for the computer to cheat!!!!

[LaughingMan]

04:01 AM on 03/12/2010

"Glove let's you play with yourself" and "Will beat you good"

Yes, I'll agree with other posters that this is bar none, the best headline ever to grace the pages of these Huffington Post pages.

We usually lambaste HuffPo editors for their often sophomoric and childish headlines, but this? Mr. Tech editor, you go ahead and take a bow.

I just can'd figure out if it was a guy or a girl who wrote it. It works either way.

[xypher0725]

01:58 AM on 03/12/2010

My advice: Save your money and get a girl...or whatever floats your boat...except a boat, definitely don't get a boat, they can get expensive...kinda like girls...so in afterthought, just save your money.

[stevemarvin]

01:13 AM on 03/12/2010

Hey, the Andrew Young shock tape o' kisser man
maybe John Edward's Rock Paper Scissor-hands

[quasijodo]

01:05 AM on 03/12/2010

Kinda sad, really. Nobody to play rock, paper, scissors with? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

[foxisms]

01:47 AM on 03/12/2010

Nice reference!
Fit's well, here.

[cookerman45]

12:57 AM on 03/12/2010

even with the lights on???

[torontojohn]

12:48 AM on 03/12/2010

WORDING!