Quirky Digits makes gloves touchscreen friendly, iGo gear at CES, AT&T adds WiFi coverage

Shane McGlaun — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:59:16 +0000

Working your iPhone with gloves on is impossible unless you have gloves specifically made for working touchscreens. If your favorite gloves are not made for touchscreens you can turn them into touchscreen gloves with some cool new pins from Quirky called Digits for $14.

iGo has announced that it will be showing off new gear at CES 2011. The gear will include a pocket projector that fits smartphones like the iPhone and a charge cable that is small enough for your key ring called KeyJuice.

AT&T has beefed up its WiFi Hot Zones to provide users in Times Square and San Francisco more free coverage for WiFi. The WiFi data use won’t count against you monthly allotments and is offered free of charge to subscribers.

iPhone winter-friendly gloves patented

Budi Putra — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:11:17 +0000

It’s the Apple’s answer to the complaints of nearly every iPhone owner in a northern climate: Apple iPhone touchscreen gloves. Apple has filed for a patent that would cover a special glove which would allow wearers to still use their iPhone or iPod Touch despite keeping their hands toasty warm.

Due to the way the cellphone’s capacitive multitouch display works, relying on the electrical response of the user’s fingers in order for contact to be recognized, the original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch will not respond to presses if the user is wearing gloves too thick for that response to be transfered. Apple’s solution is a multi-layer fabric, the inner lining of which mimics the electrical conductivity of skin.

The application lists Steven Hotelling and Ashwin Sunder as inventors, and was filed on June 28th 2007, just a day before the original iPhone’s launch.

[via SlashGear]

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Quirky Digits makes gloves touchscreen friendly, iGo gear at CES, AT&T adds WiFi coverage

iPhone winter-friendly gloves patented