Capacitive Touchscreens and gloves; what to do?

Heya all,

Has anyone come up with a good approach to using capacitive touch screens with gloves on?

I've seen preparations advertised for treating gloves (to make the electrical connection to the hand inside the glove,) metal thread for another way of making that connection, the proposal to use a capacitive stylus (but I'm not clear how they work with gloves...) and all seem to have qualified success.

Suggestions?

Jack

Both my summer and mid weight gloves have no problem with the captive screen if I use the thumb. I guess they have a wire or something in there to create the electrical resistance necessary for the screen to read it.

My solution here... just bring a stylus along.

Much easier then using your nose at stoplights. :-D

Some gloves don;t seem to have an issue, my summer gloves can work it pretty good. But a stylus works all the time every time.

Thanks for that. I was leaning toward a stylus, but I wasn't certain it would work in a gloved hand - I can see on the thread you sent T_C, that it does indeed work in a gloved hand. That works for me!

Thanks!

Jack

I took a pair of neoprene gloves from Costco and cut a finger tip off and sewed it onto another pair of gloves and that seems to work ok. I have a Samsung S4 and you can change the setting to increase sensitivity too.

You can get conductive thread and put a few strategically placed loops on the glove of the finger you intend to use on the screen.

http://www.amazon.com/Conductive-thread-screen-gloves-texting/dp/B00GG3US4S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416962010&sr=8-1&keywords=Conductive+thread&pebp=1416962021566

I have some of this and you might want to give it a try. One is for leather and other is for synthetics.

http://www.amazon.com/AnyGlove-TM-For-Leather-Formula/dp/B00BWYX2MG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417067582&sr=8-1&keywords=anyglove

http://www.amazon.com/AnyGlove-TM-Synthetic-Touchscreen-Compatible/dp/B00AB3EVOW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1417067600&sr=8-2&keywords=anyglove

I have been using the ICON Justice Touchscreen gloves for a couple of years and they work VERY well. They are on closeout on Revzilla for $50, that is less than half of what I paid for them new when they first came out. I use my phone for GPS, music, voice to text, intercom, and as a phone all without having to take it out of it's cradle right between the bars. When I do take it out to use it as a camera I still don't have to take my gloves off. Very nice!http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/icon-justice-touchscreen-gloves

Those Icon gloves look very tempting, wihardy. I was just turned onto Thumbdogs sold by Aerostich. They'd let me keep my favorite gloves on (Speedmasters)

I wonder how long it will be before all gloves are capacitive screen friendly?

Jack

Dig this. I was going to go the stylus route, cause I thought the silver wire might gouge the screen and the chemical treatments wear off quickly and I decided to try my gloves out before buying the fixers.

Some of my riding gloves are already capacitive screen friendly and my gloved hands will work - glad the software presents big buttons!

T_C said:

My solution here... just bring a stylus along.

Much easier then using your nose at stoplights. :-D

Some gloves don;t seem to have an issue, my summer gloves can work it pretty good. But a stylus works all the time every time.

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Or various other parts of your anatomy. Funny, +1 on the different gloves. My expensive, custom made black deerskin gloves (Thurlow made) do not work on my iPhone, but the cheap elkskin(?) gloves dyed natural that I've been wearing this summer work fine. Go figure. Same for my Garmin gps (not a zumo).

iPhones and iPads use a capacitive touch screen. Thinner gloves stand a better chance of letting the screen "see" the capacitance of your finger (or thumb) no nose need apply. It might also be that the treatment of the gloves or lipids from the skin affect the capacitance seen by the screen.

If the screen used resistance tech like some other phones/tablets do/did your gloves might not work at all.

Because I would not want to poke a needle thru my heated gloves, the stylus solution appeals to me.

I just got a phone that works with normal gloves. Well ok most gloves. If they are too big to work well then I use the stylus that is on a retractor on my bars.

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