Most winter work gloves include some mix of Thinsulate, foam insulation, and fleece to keep your hands warm. Thinsulate material traps heat well but is also thin enough to allow your hands enough ...

Our work goes one step in this direction, focusing particularly on kinesthetic feedback,” Otmar Hilliges, head of the Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab at ETH Zurich, said in a statement.

The new gloves, dubbed DextrES, work using a pretty novel technique. Embedded into the fingers of nylon gloves are strips of an elastic metal with a thin insulator between them.

But they really work effectively when you make hand signals for turning left or right. They're pretty bright, even in low light. Mine are just orange work gloves I got at a hardware store for $7.

This paper is highlighting new approaches combining a simplified glove processing with attractive new product features and cost saving options. Following the idea of raw material savings without ...