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    Default 5 silly gadgets you don’t need

    5 silly gadgets you don’t need

    Check out some gadgets that you may want, but really do not need

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    I can see a use for one of those items. The gloves.

    Have you ever tried using a smartphone at 5am in the morning outside in the winter? You have to take one of your gloves off and watch your fingers turn blue as you use the phone. The gloves mentioned here is such a good idea!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    I can see a use for one of those items. The gloves.

    Have you ever tried using a smartphone at 5am in the morning outside in the winter? You have to take one of your gloves off and watch your fingers turn blue as you use the phone. The gloves mentioned here is such a good idea!
    I find capacitive screens work through material.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pooky View Post
    I find capacitive screens work through material.
    Capacitive screens only work with conductive materials. If you find that your smartphone screen works with your gloves then
    a) Your gloves are conductive. (Like the ones mentioned in the article)
    b) Your gloves are too thin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Solitude View Post
    Capacitive screens only work with conductive materials. If you find that your smartphone screen works with your gloves then
    a) Your gloves are conductive. (Like the ones mentioned in the article)
    b) Your gloves are too thin.
    I just used my phone through a t-shirt, some denim jeans, and a towel (about the thickness of gloves). All of them work perfectly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pooky View Post
    I just used my phone through a t-shirt, some denim jeans, and a towel (about the thickness of gloves). All of them work perfectly.
    I don't believe you. I tried mine through my work shirt and it didn't work.

    A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide (ITO).[19][20] As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the screen's electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance. Different technologies may be used to determine the location of the touch. The location is then sent to the controller for processing.

    Unlike a resistive touchscreen, one cannot use a capacitive touchscreen through most types of electrically insulating material, such as gloves. This disadvantage especially affects usability in consumer electronics, such as touch tablet PCs and capacitive smartphones in cold weather. It can be overcome with a special capacitive stylus, or a special-application glove with an embroidered patch of conductive thread passing through it and contacting the user's fingertip.
    Either your touch screen is not a capacitive one or you and your clothes and towel are just flowing with electricity.

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    The LED display is truly useless. The way I drive I only need one message (two words) and luckily there are a number of hand signs for it.
    The message is, off course, "thank you".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister 44 View Post
    The LED display is truly useless. The way I drive I only need one message (two words) and luckily there are a number of hand signs for it.
    The message is, off course, "thank you".
    Yea I cant set it to scroll some profanity and show a meme or two :-/ It totally sucks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glordit View Post
    Yea I cant set it to scroll some profanity and show a meme or two :-/ It totally sucks.
    I'd buy it if it could display a troll face, ya.

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    i dont see my self using a glove to just use a phone out side.

    Maybe some people might want to use it others wont.

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