There's no mistaking it... it's winter out there. My hour long lunch break walks are becoming quick jaunts in and out of the cold. See, I normally play Ingress on those breaks, but it's getting too cold for that.
Plus, I have a terrible time with those touch screen gloves. The Glider Gloves are great, but they need to be kept up and washed or something... as every season I take my latest pair out of storage and they no longer work. Even new pairs (I got a free pair from Rogers at the AndroidTO event) stop working for me after a while. I don't know what it is.
And most pairs of touch screen gloves are just THIN. Definitely not something I want to keep my fingers in in any cooler weather (and it's only just starting for us here). I end up buying a pair of touch gloves and then a pair of those cut away tips with the fold for a mitton and putting them over my touch gloves and only exposing one finger at a time. Then that one finger gets cold, or for some reason the touch sensitivity disappears (maybe it's a cold thing, do screens get worse as they get colder?) ... it's just a hassle. Ingressing will have to be done from a car for the next few months.
And then I watched my favourite show the other day. It's probably your favourite show as well... Dragon's Den. Specifically it was the student edition where a kid came up with 'nanotips'.
Nanotips is essentially a liquid you paint on any pair of gloves and it turns that into a touch point. How smart is that?!?!?! Take ANY glove... your warmest pair, and make it touch screen friendly! For $20 I'm going to order a bottle and see how it goes. (apparently 1 bottle can be used for up to 30 applications - which is good as apparently they can fade anywhere from several weeks to a few months, so for a Northwestern Ontario winter length I'll need a couple applications.).
It comes in either black (for leather or rubbers) or blue (for fabrics).
Apparently it's also available at MEC, if you have one near you (lucky you).
Source: http://www.nanotips.com/
If you go to the site now (and it's the first time you've been there) you can get 10% off.
Plus, I have a terrible time with those touch screen gloves. The Glider Gloves are great, but they need to be kept up and washed or something... as every season I take my latest pair out of storage and they no longer work. Even new pairs (I got a free pair from Rogers at the AndroidTO event) stop working for me after a while. I don't know what it is.
And most pairs of touch screen gloves are just THIN. Definitely not something I want to keep my fingers in in any cooler weather (and it's only just starting for us here). I end up buying a pair of touch gloves and then a pair of those cut away tips with the fold for a mitton and putting them over my touch gloves and only exposing one finger at a time. Then that one finger gets cold, or for some reason the touch sensitivity disappears (maybe it's a cold thing, do screens get worse as they get colder?) ... it's just a hassle. Ingressing will have to be done from a car for the next few months.
(I don't know if you can see how it's still red)
And then I watched my favourite show the other day. It's probably your favourite show as well... Dragon's Den. Specifically it was the student edition where a kid came up with 'nanotips'.Nanotips is essentially a liquid you paint on any pair of gloves and it turns that into a touch point. How smart is that?!?!?! Take ANY glove... your warmest pair, and make it touch screen friendly! For $20 I'm going to order a bottle and see how it goes. (apparently 1 bottle can be used for up to 30 applications - which is good as apparently they can fade anywhere from several weeks to a few months, so for a Northwestern Ontario winter length I'll need a couple applications.).
It comes in either black (for leather or rubbers) or blue (for fabrics).
Apparently it's also available at MEC, if you have one near you (lucky you).
Source: http://www.nanotips.com/
If you go to the site now (and it's the first time you've been there) you can get 10% off.
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