Glone - the glove phone

Step 4 The finished product

Its looks need to be improved in the next version but it certainly works. I used heavy gauge wire which has proved unnecessary, and I'll use ribbon cable for the next one I make.

also it is far from waterproof, so it's for novelty purposes only!

Comments

[Risuji]

Maybe if you added the buttons to the bottom of the fingers you could use them in a sort of typing manner. Any phone's locking keypad mechanism should stop normal activity being an issue if you use small pad buttons. You could put the typing buttons left, right and centre of each finger, also keeping the navigation buttons down the finger so you can reach them with the thumb (try pressing your thumb to each finger bone in its hand). Adding the screen to the wrist and hiding the wiring could really make this a great everyday use idea!

[moviemagicman33]

Using one of the flip-open phones, is it still possible to disconnect the screen and keypad while still keeping them functional? I may be working with an LG phone, and was also looking to see if I could keep the camera operational as well.

[trotmaster]

The power and control comes from the keypad via a ribbon cable to the screen and camera. I guess if you can work out the interface to the camera then you could do away with the keypad part but that would require some pretty clever interfacing, probably a PC or PIC interface.