These Gloves Let You Use Your Phone In The Cold
How Do Smartphone Gloves Work? Modern smartphones have a capacitive screen that responds to the electrical charge of your fingertip—which is why when you try to swipe on your phone with a pair of regular gloves on, nothing happens. The tip of your glove doesn’t have the same electrical signature as your finger, and the digitizer under the screen doesn’t respond. Smartphone-compatible gloves solve that problem—with varying degrees of success—by embedding electrically conductive material in the glove, turning the tip of one or more of the fingers into what amounts to a screen stylus you wear on your fingertip....