Australian Scientists Invented A Glove That Can Feel Data

charts, graphs, dashboards, pie charts, Thermo-Fi, which is such a weird name, instead of showing you information, it physically gives you that information because the glove has little tiny heating elements wrapped around your fingers.

And it can also display these little 3D printed physical bar charts and stuff on the outside.

So whatever graph you're looking at...

You can feel it with your fingertips as well, which is so weird.

Okay.

Okay.

So firstly, number one, and this is actually a serious question as much as it doesn't seem like it, is like, number one, if you are going to feel data, especially if it's complex data, or I don't even think it would have to be that complex.

Does that mean that you have to learn a new language for what like the different heat elements or something feel like? But number two, I'm sorry, if the whole thing was to have an alternative to visual data, why is there now data coming? Like, why is it visual coming out of the wearable gloves as well? We had the visual bit already.

Oh my God.

I need to send you a photo.

Hold on.

If I end up loving this by the end, I will eat my wearable glove.

I don't think you're going to be eating your wearable glove.

This gadget falls firmly in the category of I'm glad this exists, but I don't need it.

But, like, I don't know why it exists.

Like, what problem is it solving is what I don't understand.

Yeah,

yeah, I'll get to that.

I'll get to that.

I'm going to send you.

I don't have confidence that it will be adequate, honestly.

So I've just sent you a message on Messenger.

Okay.

Look at it.

Oh, my God.