What do you do when you're standing in the
freezing cold, just dying to tweet about the Green
Line being late (again) but fearful of taking your
winter gloves off? Well, you suffer like a common young professional
– or you get in line for a pair of Hashtag Gloves, which are actually a thing thanks to some
industrious dudes out of Olin College. As Buzzfeed reports, Andrew Deaver, Patrick Huston, Byron Wasti and Keenan Zucker came up
with the idea after watching the Jimmy Fallon and
Justin Timberlake #Hashtag bit on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They then implemented it during a
24-hour hackaton at Mt. Holyoke College. “There’s conductive fabric on the tips of the
fingers, and we put a voltage across them,” Wasti
explained to the Daily Dot. “And then you just short it, and it detects when you short the signal.
It’s really basic.” In layman's terms: You make the hashtag symbol
with your gloved fingers, say something, and
watch as that hashtag appears in your Twitter
feed. Like so: The gloves are currently in the prototype stage,
but the guys apparently hope to get them to retail
for around $50. This is a pretty big step up from the ubiquitous
"phone friendly" gloves currently littering the
market. Sure, they only sync with Twitter. (For
now?) But when you're looking to complain about
something or rave about your latest food truck
conquest, isn't that what you turn to anyway? #BravoBros.