At the PC Game Show during the E3 2021, there was a special look at a glove for gamers. This neurocontroller allows you to click particularly fast.
The company Brinks Bionics introduced a special device at the PC Game Show that allows you to click particularly fast.
The device looks like a futuristic glove that you pull over your hand, but it is a neural interface. After you have put on the glove, you connect the device to your computer. You do not click with the glove itself, as you still need a gaming mouse that you can hold in your hand.
The glove is supposed to significantly improve the user’s reaction times. Because the intent to click is already converted into a click, as the brain and computer are supposed to communicate directly through the interface.
The neural interface is supposed to convert your intention directly into a click without using the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral nervous system includes, for example, hands and legs.
You click with your mouse as soon as you think about clicking
The glove is supposed to ensure that you click significantly faster. But how exactly is that supposed to work? The explanation lies in the nerves located in your hand:
- According to the developers, it takes you about 150 milliseconds to move the finger muscle and then trigger the mouse button.
- With Impulse, this should only take 80 milliseconds. The neural interface is supposed to directly convert your intention to click the mouse button into a click. This means, as soon as you want to click, you already click.
In this way, a gamer is supposed to improve their reaction time by more than 30% compared to the normal gaming situation. You click much faster and can thus react much faster to opponents who, for example, just come around the corner.
You can watch the official video from Brink Bionics here:
Faster clicks are advantageous for competitive gamers
This futuristic glove would give an advantage mainly to players who play fast shooters or real-time strategy games where fast clicks are absolutely necessary.
However, there are already concerns about whether such gloves would even be allowed in competitive tournaments.
After all, you would react and click significantly faster than your opponents, thus gaining a strong advantage.
The developers present the difference between a normal gaming mouse and a gaming mouse with an additional interface in a video that we will embed here. Here you can clearly see the difference:
The glove costs as much as a high-end mouse, but you can’t buy it right now
What does the device cost? On the official website of the developer Brink Bionics, you can order the device for 163.99 US dollars. This price is roughly in the range of a Razer Basilisk Ultimate. However, if shipped to Germany, additional import duties would apply.
The device can only be ordered exclusively from the developer. However, the device is currently completely sold out (via brinkbionics.com). It is quite likely that the developer will manufacture more devices in the future if the product is successful.
Other products have failed: The neural interface has been very successful on Kickstarter. Other developers have failed with their 300-euro mouse because an important detail is missing.
Would you buy or try such a glove? Or do you find the developer’s idea too crazy? Let us know in the comments.
