A University of Minnesota assistant professor, Lucy Dunne, is working to come up with a way firefighters can find their way around a smoke-filled environment without having to touch anything with their gloves.
Dunne put a sensor in a standard-issue firefighter glove, and has been testing it in the lab. The way it works is a firefighter would point the glove at an object and it vibrates. It vibrates harder when it’s closer to an object, softer when it’s farther away. Recently, Dunne brought the glove to Minneapolis (MN) Fire Department firefighters to test.
