GLOVELAMP

GLOVELAMP suggests a glove with a built-in lamp or a lighted wearable accessory, so its natural audience is anyone who wants hands-free light in a small, practical form. By our assessment, the obvious good part is that it leaves the hands free while putting light exactly where the hand points. The trade-off is equally obvious: anything worn on the hand has to balance weight, comfort, battery life, and brightness, and that can make it feel fiddly if the design is not careful. In practice, this sort of thing is more specialised than a headlamp and less general than a normal torch. It sits in the useful-but-narrow corner of practical gear, where the shape is the whole point.