Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27020644-20161006135737/@comment-14267015-20161006145540

I always thought that, at least originally, the gauntlets were made so someone would be able to hold the Stones. We have seen that just touching them in the MCU can have severe if not lethal side-effects. The gauntlets may have even been used to forge the original singularities into the Stones as we know them. Now we also know that people have been hunting for the Stones long before Thanos, it could be that at some point some one or more people discovered one or both gauntlets and modified them so they could also safely channel the Stones' power.