E-tip gloves

[Sudden]

Anyone has these type of gloves? Came across these today -

http://www.simplyhike.co.uk/products/TheNorthFace/MensEtipGlove-TNFBlack.aspx

and seemed interesting. Does get a bit annoying if i'm out and want to change songs/check a text message or something and have to take gloves off, do it and put them back on etc.

Anyone had experience with these/any others? Any recommendations? Any problems people have had with them? Are they actually warm as well?

 

[Paul2k12]

I have a pair. They work really well but they aren't the warmest gloves! They only have the silver conducting bits in the thumb and forefinger but that's ideal for my use - iPhone. They have palm grips too so are handy for driving as well as actually holding the device.

Paul

 

[RomanNose]

I don't wear gloves as I am not a manchild.

 

[kylew]

I don't wear gloves as I am not a manchild.

What?

 

[JBod]

I wear fingerless gloves...

 

[asim18]

What?

He takes it like a man

 

[Glaucus]

Those look really usefull.

And some of us work outside all the time so you can take your manlyness and shove it.
However I would wreck them in a shift.

 

[Sudden]

I have a pair. They work really well but they aren't the warmest gloves! They only have the silver conducting bits in the thumb and forefinger but that's ideal for my use - iPhone. They have palm grips too so are handy for driving as well as actually holding the device.

Paul

Hard to qualify, but when you say not the warmest, are they almost ineffective or just that your hands won't be toasty warm? For instance, would you still need to keep hands in your pockets or something to keep them warm?

Have you tried their windstopper gloves? Just under double the price I think.

Jbod - never saw the point in fingerless gloves tbh. Most of your hand might be warm but your fingers are still cold

 

[Steve JL]

I have a pair,used them last weekend when I was out in my Westfield,did 130 miles and was surprised how warm my hands were. Bear in mind this is with no windscreen or heater.

 

[arctine]

You can just buy the metal thread and stitch it into your own gloves too.

 

[Repta]

They are good but the 'e-tip' bit wears out really quickly ive found

 

[Tefal]

could you take a pair of normal gloves and sow a few strands of conductive fibre (like people sue for making arduino controlled clothing do) through the tips?

 

[arctine]

could you take a pair of normal gloves and sow a few strands of conductive fibre (like people sue for making arduino controlled clothing do) through the tips?

You can just buy the metal thread and stitch it into your own gloves too.

 

[Sudden]

They are good but the 'e-tip' bit wears out really quickly ive found

Oh, I hadn't come across this. How long does it last typically? Not worth buying them if they don't actually last.

 

[Sudden]

could you take a pair of normal gloves and sow a few strands of conductive fibre (like people sue for making arduino controlled clothing do) through the tips?

I have a distinct lack of faith in my sewing ability

 

[Cleeecooo]

They are useless when it actually gets cold!

 

[Energize]

An unfortunate sign of the times of all the crappy capacitive touchscreens we now have. Resistive was so much better.

 

[Robbo]

An unfortunate sign of the times of all the crappy capacitive touchscreens we now have. Resistive was so much better.

Not really, capacitive screens are more than fine, the same could never be said about resistive in my experience.

 

[Cleeecooo]

An unfortunate sign of the times of all the crappy capacitive touchscreens we now have. Resistive was so much better.

Atleast you can scroll with capaative

 

[Energize]

Atleast you can scroll with capaative

You can scroll with resistive in exactly the same way, many phones like the Sony Xperia X1 featured touch flo. I could even scroll with my finger on my circa 2005 XDA IIi.