There are commercial gloves designed to work with touchscreens, but you can achieve the same functionality with your current pair of gloves using a needle and some conductive thread.
Coated palm high dexterity gloves with wired fingertips in for use with touch screens.
West Chester Touch Screen Gloves sold in bulk by Copper State Supply. High dexterity and cut resistant.
Winter-like temperatures are already chilling the U.S. Even in Hawaii, there was a spot where you could feel the 32-degree air in your hair. Your frozen, frozen hair. But what about your fingers? They're out there swiping commuter passes on dark, cold mornings, shoveling snow, and holding on to steaming lattes.
Smartphones have capacitive touch screens that detect where your fingers are through the distortion caused by your conductive hand on the screen's electrostatic field (measured by a difference in capacitance). Gloves are insulators and hence any interference on the screen will be muffled, and will probably be below the threshold of detection.
You can do this in just a few minutes without a lot of know-how.
We've all been in this situation at least once: It's miserably cold outside and you need your phone or other touchscreen device for some reason. Perhaps you're lost, maybe you want to text a friend, it could even be, perish the thought, to actually make a phone call.
Speckle gray HPPE fiber shell with gray polyurethane palm coating. Wired finger tips for use with touch screens. Rugged HPPE fiber is 10 times stronger than steel and 40% stronger than blended fabrics. Excellent cut protection in a comfortable glove. Available in sizes Small through 2XL. Wholesale bulk.
High visibility yellow nylon shell with gray polyurethane palm coating for enhanced tactile sensitivity and high level of dexterity. Available in sizes Small through 2XL.
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Between smartphones, tablet computers and other gadgets such as GPS systems, touch screens are a common input method for devices without keyboards -- and thanks in part to Windows 8's updated interface, even some PCs include touch-screen monitors. Most touch-sensitive devices use one of two technologies: resistive touch screens, commonly used with...
