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Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days
Zothecula writes "With capacitive the technology of choice on the majority of touchscreen devices hitting the market, people have been coming up with all kinds of interesting ways to interact with their devices when the winter chill sets in and gloves become a necessity. Many South Koreans apparently turned to using sausages as a stylus but if you'd prefer not to be hassled by dogs as you type a text there are less meat product-based solutions, such as the North Face Etip gloves. Now there's another glove-based solution in the form of Agloves, which provide even greater touchscreen friendly surface area for your hands."
I wonder if metallic threads in the gloves will eventually scratch the screens. Would you use steel wool on your touchscreen?
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Would you use steel wool on your touchscreen?
If the screen is glass then sure. Mohs scale of hardness
Glass harder than steel and much harder than silver.
I am a self admitted Polar Bear. I wear shorts when there's snow on the ground.
In the middle of winder I will be wearing so many layers it's not even funny. Gloves? I wear mittons because they're warmer.
When they talk about it being so cold that exposed skin will freeze in less than 5 minutes, they mean it.
Ability to use the phone even with gloves would help occasionally.
Oh, and for the operating temperature thing - you keep the phone close to your body to keep it's temperature up.
I don't read AC A human right
Projected capacitive screens are supposedly able to register fingers even when gloves are worn.
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm