The PowerPoint Glove
Parsia Hakimian
DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Main Stage
In "The PowerPoint Glove" at DEF CON, Parsia Hakimian from Microsoft presented an ambitious and entertaining project: repurposing a vintage Nintendo Power Glove as a modern Bluetooth Human Interface Device (HID) for controlling presentations and other computer functions. This talk delves into the fascinating world of retro hardware hacking, demonstrating how an iconic, yet notoriously unreliable, 1980s gaming accessory can be brought into the 21st century through embedded systems development.
AI review
A fun, well-executed hardware hack dressed up in a DEF CON talk. The Power Glove-as-Bluetooth-HID project is charming and technically competent, but it's fundamentally a hobbyist embedded systems project with a retro prop — not security research. It earns its slot on entertainment value and solid technical execution, not novelty or impact.