Florida Polytechnic students create wearable prototype for controlling electric longboards with hand gestures


Polytech students develop wearable technology

Jordan Bowen from FOX 13 reports

LAKELAND, Fla. - - If you own a smartwatch, you can consider yourself a wearable technology consumer. The concept has grown in popularity in recent years and now three Florida Polytechnic University students are receiving huge funding for their own portable prototype.

A handle doesn't take much, but we've found it can do a lot more than you might think.

"Gesture technology can help people prevent harm and potentially save lives," said Kevin Racktoo, senior hardware engineer at DEX Interfaces.

Racktoo and David Terry and Aaron Apigo are seniors at Florida Polytechnic University. It was only four months ago that they had the idea for a portable device that could be used to control an electric longboard with hand gestures.

"If you want to go forward, you can move your hand forward," said Racktoo.

The prototype is being developed under the name DEX Interfaces and is already receiving major financial support. To date, the group has raised more than $ 5,000 from grants and competitions.

"It just means people believe in the idea. It was an amazing experience," said David Terry, team leader and hardware engineer at DEX Interfaces.

As Terry explains, using gestures to control a longboard isn't the end goal, it's just the beginning. Electronic longboards are currently controlled with handheld remote controls.

"If you play around with a small remote control and try to press buttons and that remote control is easy to drop, the chances are that you will injure yourself," said Racktoo. "Gestures are much more intuitive than pressing a button that normally looks down and reads to find out what's doing what."

Their original prototype was a leather glove, but it has evolved into a small blue box and now a bendable wrist strap. You plan to build and sell gesture-based electric longboard controllers at some point.

It's just a look at the potential of a group of young entrepreneurs with a big idea that is already paying off.

"It shows that hard work, having a vision and staying true to this path can be rewarded. It's phenomenal," said Terry.


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