E3 2009 was the place where a number of controller companies tried to push their new and sometimes unusual products. One of the few that caught our attention was the Peregrine, a PC gaming controller in the form of a fabric glove that contains sensors that can serve to take over where a gamer might use a keyboard.

The glove itself is being promoted for being used primarily with RTS and MMO games although technically it can be used with any PC game). Over 30 different game actions can supposedly be handled by the Peregrine glove (we say supposedly since we were not allowed to actually play with the glove; we were told that at this early stage the prototypes would take too long to synch to our hand). The folks who handled the demo at the Peregrine booth seemed to know what they are doing; the USB powered glove let them order World of Warcraft characters to attack and use powers merely by touching two glove-covered fingers with sensors together.