Melissa Shield's answer to a body that cannot survive its own strength, the Full Gauntlet passes for a plain red wristband until a button wakes it. Released, it wraps Izuku Midoriya's forearm and buys him a handful of unrestrained One For All strikes, steadying anything he throws below that ceiling.
All Might's raw physical output gave Melissa Shield her design brief. She wanted gear that could survive strength on that scale, and what she built ended up in Izuku Midoriya's hands during his stay on I-Island.
Dormant, the device reads as nothing more than a red band worn at the wrist. A button sits at its center, and pressing it makes the material spread and reshape until it grips the contours of whichever forearm is holding it. Once released, the thing looks less like armor than like a fighter's taped fists, or bandaging wound over a palm and up the arm.
Three strikes at undiluted One For All are what the equipment guarantees, delivered without the shattered bones such output normally costs its bearer.
Below that ceiling the benefit changes shape. The gauntlet steadies whatever percentage Izuku selects, letting him push Full Cowl well past his usual safe margin while keeping hold of the result.
Izuku is the only person shown wearing it. His first trial run came at thirty percent against the drones of the I-Island Security System, and he saved the full hundred for the central tower, punching an opening straight through its wall. The battle that closed out the incident, against Wolfram, wrecked the device for good.
A small footnote to the whole episode is that Izuku never worked out how to get it off and simply kept it on. The Mid-Gauntlet, a weaker relation resting on the same safety principle, is implied to descend from Melissa's design.

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Izuku Midoriya's Full Gauntlet was wrecked for good during the battle that closed out the I-Island Incident, his fight against the villain Wolfram. Izuku never figured out how to remove the device beforehand, so he simply kept wearing it the whole time.
Deku's gauntlet is the Full Gauntlet, a piece of support equipment built by Melissa Shield. Dormant it looks like a plain red wristband, but pressing a button makes it expand to wrap Izuku Midoriya's forearm, letting him unleash undiluted One For All.
Melissa Shield designed the Full Gauntlet, using All Might's raw physical output as her design brief for gear that could survive strength on that scale.
The Full Gauntlet guarantees three strikes at full One For All power without the shattered bones that output normally costs Izuku Midoriya. Below that maximum, it steadies whatever percentage of One For All he chooses, letting him push Full Cowl past his usual safe margin.
Izuku Midoriya first tested the Full Gauntlet at thirty percent power against I-Island's security drones, then saved a full hundred percent to punch through the wall of the island's central tower. The device was destroyed in the climactic fight against Wolfram.
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