Dillon Markey, an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, modified a Nintendo Power Glove as the most awesome animation tool ever. Tech rises from the dead.
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Christopher Jobson
In a stroke of nostalgic brilliance, he realized Nintendo’s failed 1980 Power Glove—a wearable device that was supposed to offer novel ways of controlling video games—posessed the form factor he needed.
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Lauren Davis
Markey also does work for stop-motion director PES, and in this video by Ava Benjamin, he explains how and why he converted a Power Glove into a Bluetooth device that lets him shoot a frame of footage without walking back to the camera. It's nostalgia put to good use.
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