Inspect-a-Gadget: Bluetooth Glove Phone

By Sky Gidge, February 15, 2017

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Inspect-a-Gadget is a monthly segment where we feature a tech toy our editors have been playing with.

Usually we try to find a gadget that is at least minimally useful to your daily life. This month, we’ve stumbled upon something borderline indispensable: Bluetooth phone gloves.

Think of the possibilities. Cold weather? Talk to the hand. Need to call reinforcements to a snowball fight? No problem. Want to report a crime in progress while convincing the thieves you’re a few cups short of a cupboard? That’s a little bit risky… but totally doable.

Before you can become a crime fighting snowball assassin, you need to set the Hi-Call gloves up. It's basically the same as tethering any Bluetooth device – the buttons are pretty self-explanatory and smartphone screens respond to your thumb and forefinger through the gloves.

But how do the hand-mounted speaker and microphone stack up?

The speaker is not quite as clear as a normal phone, but clear enough if you’re the type of person who walks around with their thumb inside their ear. The pinky-finger microphone, on the other hand, er, on the same hand, is on par with the average headset.

For who: badasses
How much: RMB115
Sold where: Taobao.com

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