Media Lab Europe (in Voluntary Liquidation)

Rebecca Allen

Bret Recor

Martin Schnitzer

Jacques L Gagne

Yves Behar

Walter R Bender

Kenneth Edwin Jewell

Mary Lou Jepsen

Mark A Foster

Michail Bletsas

Nicholas Negroponte

Johannes Nehls

Laptop computer

A wireless remote control device for transmitting control commands to a Bluetooth&#x2122; enabled electronic device, such as a television set, an audio player, or a cellular telephone by manipulating the zipper in a garment, handbag or the like. The zipper fastener consists of opposing rows of interlocking teeth attached to a pair of elongated flexible supports and a manually movable sliding traveler that locks and unlocks said teeth at is moves longitudinally along the length of said flexible supports. A sensor is coupled to said zipper fastener for generating a position signal that indicates the current position of said sliding traveler with respect to said supports, and a Bluetooth&#x2122; transmitter coupled to said sensor sends control commands indicative of the current position of the slider and the state of a pushbutton attached to the slider.

Bluetooth remote controller using zipper interface

Growing community of inventors

Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Rebecca Allen