Silver gloves said to ease cold-weather touchscreen use
Touchscreen smartphone and tablet users know their devices are tough to use while wearing gloves in in cold weather.
The
problem is more widespread than one might think, and has spawned a
market for specialized gloves that can ease the task and conduct a
person's bioelectricity.
One vendor, Agloves, showed off its knit gloves this week at the Consumer Electronics show here.
The
gloves, priced at $23.99 a pair, come in black with actual threads of
silver woven in, said Jean Spencer, who founded the Boulder, Colo.
start-up with her mother.
Many
smartphones and tablets, including the iPhone and iPad, rely upon
capacitative touchscreens, which means a person's fingertip
bioelectricity is needed to activate a swipe or touch action on a
screen.
Agloves
claims that the silver fibers running throughout its glove can bring
the electricity from other parts of the hand to the fingertip.
Officials said some gloves from competitors put conductive material in
just a couple of fingertips, and thus don't work as well as the Agloves
design.
The company uses the Periodic Table symbol for silver, Ag, in its name.
Source : www.computerworld.com
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