Spend a few cold winters, and empathize with the agony of taking out your gloves to answer calls on your smartphone. Touch surfaces are generally capacitive screens which respond to the static electricity on the fingers. Thick gloves block this signal, thus making the use of touch-enabled devices a problem. Researchers are working on the problem, spending a few million dollars on the way. Probably, no one told them about stitching a few strands of conductive thread onto the fingertips of the gloves. You might have to search for conductive threads, but it’s easily available on Amazon and eBay. Now, you just have to thread a needle. This is a nifty low-tech solution to a high-tech problem.
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