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Suggestion - Grip gloves

  • 23 July 2022
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Razer is probably the brand whose trying the most "weird" products in gaming, so I was thinking, maybe you could save me and make some grip gloves.

The idea is to get grip tape grip feeling but directly on the hands.

Why not just grip tapes then ?

  • No grip tapes have perfect stitching, and I really don't like to feel it. It's not smooth at all, having the grip directly on your fingertips would mean the feeling would always be the same, no matter where your finger are positionned, since the grip "moves with em".
  • Kinda directly related to the first point, but it also means this grip feeling and position is consistent over any mice, and any device really.

  • I clean my mice really often, and having grip tapes on em makes cleaning much less convenient. With some gloves, you could probably just put em in the washing machine, and clean your mouse as usual. Could sound like a detail but it's a real turn off for me.
  • Grip tapes are usually too thick, I like really thin mice, and it's tough to find, plus just in general, adding grip tapes on a mouse makes its shape unbalanced. What I get in grip, i lose it in confort, or confidence in grip position. With some gloves, the thickness is a little less obvious because it is a consistent thickness on the entire hand. Also the glove would be an exterior product, unlike grip tapes that you add on your mouse, so you have a full control over it, meaning maybe razer could experiment some kind of coating or other ways to get grippiness without adding too much thickness.


So the constraints of the product would be to get the most flexible and thin material as possible, so that you feel the less the glove, and to manage sweat well.

Note that (in my opinion), the glove should be really short, so that the wrist pivot point still is skin-to-pad, it's a really important point for me, clothes-to-pad is really not enjoyable, or eventually on hard pads, but clothes-to-clothes is a friction nightmare.

I was about to try and make myself some, I thought I could first try make a silk glove, cause it's pretty good at dealing with sweat, and really thin, and then add some rubber points on the fingertips.
However it would be pretty difficult, making a glove is one of the hardest thing to sew so that it fits right, and I also don't really know if silk is the best option.
Maybe some synthetic and more flexible material like sportswear with some kind of coating to make it grippy would be a better idea, but anyway, Razer's engineer would be much more competent than me to find the right answer to this problem.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.

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Razer is probably the brand whose trying the most "weird" products in gaming, so I was thinking, maybe you could save me and make some grip gloves.

The idea is to get grip tape grip feeling but directly on the hands.

Why not just grip tapes then ?

  • No grip tapes have perfect stitching, and I really don't like to feel it. It's not smooth at all, having the grip directly on your fingertips would mean the feeling would always be the same, no matter where your finger are positionned, since the grip "moves with em".
  • Kinda directly related to the first point, but it also means this grip feeling and position is consistent over any mice, and any device really.

  • I clean my mice really often, and having grip tapes on em makes cleaning much less convenient. With some gloves, you could probably just put em in the washing machine, and clean your mouse as usual. Could sound like a detail but it's a real turn off for me.
  • Grip tapes are usually too thick, I like really thin mice, and it's tough to find, plus just in general, adding grip tapes on a mouse makes its shape unbalanced. What I get in grip, i lose it in confort, or confidence in grip position. With some gloves, the thickness is a little less obvious because it is a consistent thickness on the entire hand. Also the glove would be an exterior product, unlike grip tapes that you add on your mouse, so you have a full control over it, meaning maybe razer could experiment some kind of coating or other ways to get grippiness without adding too much thickness.


So the constraints of the product would be to get the most flexible and thin material as possible, so that you feel the less the glove, and to manage sweat well.

Note that (in my opinion), the glove should be really short, so that the wrist pivot point still is skin-to-pad, it's a really important point for me, clothes-to-pad is really not enjoyable, or eventually on hard pads, but clothes-to-clothes is a friction nightmare.

I was about to try and make myself some, I thought I could first try make a silk glove, cause it's pretty good at dealing with sweat, and really thin, and then add some rubber points on the fingertips.
However it would be pretty difficult, making a glove is one of the hardest thing to sew so that it fits right, and I also don't really know if silk is the best option.
Maybe some synthetic and more flexible material like sportswear with some kind of coating to make it grippy would be a better idea, but anyway, Razer's engineer would be much more competent than me to find the right answer to this problem.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.

Gloves,
hmmm when u think about it it can be good accessories. just like when u play Golf u have it for one side of ur hand. I love it !!
Well Thought Mate !!!
Oh yea, u might know this aswell


light Gloves, breathable, Cool design. and yea has rubber grip on ur finger tip would be slick!!!