If you watched the movie Minority Report, you must remember the futuristic glove wore by Tom Cruise. The glove was used to control the holographic screen to drag, enlarge and zoom the images from the Police Department files. Just when I thought the glove is nothing more than just one of the props used in the movie, the MIT students Nevada Sanchez and Tony Hyun Kim has proved that the gadget is possible and will one day become a real wearable mouse.

Inspired by the movie itself, the ‘Glove Mouse’ has microprocessors at the back of each glove which translate the movement of fingers into button presses, allowing the pointing, pinching, waving and grabbing you watched in the movie. And hey, they even include the LEDs at each of the index finger tip which shown in the movie, making it as real as what you saw in the sci-fi movie directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002.

But the most amazing fact about this glove is that it just cost them $100 to develop the pair. Both of the MIT tech junkies has won MIT’s George C. Newton Project Prize last year for their ingenious innovation.

I personally think that the ‘Glove Mouse‘ will one day be commercialized and can be used to interact with our Plasma TVs. This has added up another item in my wishlist