Made in collaboration with British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, the Mi.Mu glove turns the arms and hands of performers into musical instruments. Currently on Kickstarter, the project has raised about £67,000 (about $112,800) so far and has 16 days to reach its £200,000 ($336,620) goal.

Eventually, Heap and Mi.Mu’s developers hope the glove and its software, which will be made open source, will reach a wide range of users.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/16/mimu/

 

Incredible! I love stuff like that. Even Open Source, blast.
Will check on kickstarter next week and start fundraising, if necessary.

 

Sorry, I hate to be a party pooper but this thing was originally invented in 1920 by some Russian inventor named Lev Theremin, it was called "the Theremin" and it was the first electronic musical instrument, and the first to be mass produced.

From Wikipedia:

The theremin /ˈθɛrəmɪn/,[1] thair-ə-min; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone[2] or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.

The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

The theremin was used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's for Spellbound and The Lost Weekend and Bernard Herrmann's for The Day the Earth Stood Still and as the theme tune for the ITV drama Midsomer Murders. This has led to its association with a very eerie sound. Theremins are also used in concert music (especially avant-garde and 20th- and 21st-century new music) and in popular music genres such as rock. Psychedelic rock bands in particular, such as Hawkwind and Linkin Park have often used the theremin in their work.



In the photograph, Lev Theremin playing the Theremin - December 1927

 

You're not pooping any party, since these gloves aren't the same game as the theremin at all.

 

Of course. Inasmuch as a Ford Model T 1927 and a Toyota Prius 2014 obviously are very different. But they're both based on the same principles - and ostensibly some call them both "cars".

*yes*

I'm not trying to be a wise a-rs, there is nothing wrong with remodelling and renewing old ideas as long as we're not afraid to admit it pretending this is some groundbreaking invention. Lot's of ideas time and again are forgotten somewhere in some collective attic and somebody clever enough finds a way to refurbish them (engulfing on the way some hefty "research" grant$$$). This is part of our culture and our civilization. It's OK, it's great!

 

"The gloves can also be programmed to control third-party music production and editing software."
...and the gloves software is announced to be open source!
Sounds not like Theremin to me.

Needs more to poop my party...

 

It's really nothing like a theremin other than the fact that you use your hands. It's more like a fully featured midi controller in a glove, which sounds cool to me.

 

There's this one Indian guy, forget his name, but he has basically already created that. He plays it while doing his own custom made midifighter thing, too. He dresses up like a robot when he performs. Onyx Ashanti is his name. Must be fun to visit his house... haha