Happaratus are electric gloves that you can use to shape wood and stone by hand just like you would shape clay. It sounds like science fiction, and it is, except you don't have to become a superhero with special powers, you just need to put on the "augmented reality" gloves of Royal College of Art graduate Morten Grønning.
Grønning he made a prototype of special gloves, which give you superpowers. You can with them you shape wood and stone, like having a suitable work tool in your hands or playing with clay. It's that easy. He took Grønning as his basis electric kitchen knife, and the glove is on the fingertips scraper pads that move back and forth like pistons and thus enable the wearer to carves and sculpts materials such as wood and stone with "bare" hands.
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It is a project that a graduate student of the academy wanted to work on Royal College of Art discover a new way of creating and how using your hands hard materials form without an "intermediary" and with a sophisticated feel, as is possible with clay, Das mass, plasticine, etc., when we are in direct contact with the material. The mechanism Grønning used to operate the pads is taken from an electronic kitchen knife, as it creates specific movement, which corresponds to what the glove is for. How the matter works in practice, and take a look in the clip above. The Dane put the gloves to the test for others as well, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
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