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    How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen

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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/26/09

    In reply to Opening Up a Sega Genesis Leads to a Genesis iPhone Dock, Naturally
    That's no Genesis! That's a MEGA DRIVE!

    Good times.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen
    I think it would be smarter to use fabric glue than sewing a 6mm sized circle on the glove. Lol geez giz these a computer/iPhone nerds not seamstresses.
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    11/25/09

    @crazy0000: I happen to own four sewing machines.
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    Image of Him Him
    11/26/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag: Then why aren't you wearing any pants in your pic?
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    11/26/09

    @Him: Comfort my good man, comfort.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen
    iPhones meant to be good n all, but why do you need specialist gloves to use it?
    Phones have worked perfectly fine with fingers n gloves alike for the past 20+years. Does it not seem a bit backward that they now don't work.
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    The Lab promoted this comment deanbmmv was starred deanbmmv was unstarred
    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: Yeah its like why do you need a special suit to walk around in space when humans have been walking around without special suits for 100,000 years? Stupid space suits.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/25/09

    @The Lab: We haven't been walking around in space for thousands of years.
    And we've not taken to wearing space suits on Earth either.
    point, moot?
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: It pains me to have to spell out this analogy but here it goes: going to space was a huge advance in the human experience but it required a small sacrifice, astronauts had to wear protective suits. Likewise, the iphone is a huge advance in cell phones but we had to make a marginal sacrifice, we couldn't wear gloves.

    Also: reading comprehension, you need to get you some.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/25/09

    @The Lab: Don't need reading comprehension.
    You just compared the Space Race to the iPhone. And I'd call not wearing space suits more of a sacrifice. It was something that lets you stay alive in space.
    Whereas the iPhone touchscreen has the downside of no gloves with zero noticeable upsides. Oh and you need to ruin a perfectly fine pair of gloves so you can get your gloves to work.

    And it's not like they couldn't just use a touchscreen that can work with gloves, like mine does (I had a check when I realised I might not be able to use my phone. Apparently my gloves work fine,so this seems to be an iPhone issue rather than a general touchscreen problem)

    'Heres a cool phone, but you can't use it in winter' Cool phone gimped a bit on the hardware side, and it's been out for several years, not like they didn't click it might have a problem after the first winter.
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    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: Tell that to SR-71 or similar pilots.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: I didn't compare anything, I made an analogy. You'll see analogies in the reading comprehension section of the SAT, which I'm thinking you'll do poorly on.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/25/09

    @The Lab: Lvl 7 across the board. I did fairly well, thank you very much.

    And you only called it an analogy the second time round.
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    Image of iDeNoh iDeNoh
    11/26/09

    @The Lab: ehhh, I wouldn't call it a huge advance in cell phones, an advance to be sure, but purely because apple took all of the existing technology and put the best of the best together, theres nothing "new" in the iPhone that wasn't around before apple decided to use it. Capacitive touch screens, for example, have been around for years. And Capacitive touch interfaces even longer. So yeah, wouldn't really call it a huge advancement, just a good arrangement of current technology.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/26/09

    @The Lab: Seriously though? That was just about the worst analogy I've ever read. Even after you explained it in detail, it made almost no tangible sense.
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    11/26/09

    @deanbmmv: actually most good touchscreens do require capacative touch; else pressure is required.
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    11/26/09

    @The Lab: Am I the only one that got your analogy?

    @deanbmmv: Wow. You have no idea what the differences between resistive and capacitive screens are. The iPhone doesn't work with gloves, fingernails, and styluses because it has a capacitive screen. Already, I know your phone's screen is made of plastic (probably has a lot of scratches unless you took extreme care of it), doesn't have multi-touch, and is harder to see in sunlight.
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    11/26/09

    @iheartpie: Capacitive screens do not require pressure. The slightest touch will work a capacitive screen. Resistive screens need pressure, which is why they can't be made of glass.
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    11/26/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I'll agree it wasn't a good analogy. I think the explanation was clear enough. This deanbmmv guy didn't even understand that, which is worrisome.

    The iphone is great phone but there are some legitimate complaints that can be raised about it. That it doesn't work with gloves is not a significant one because a) it is such a small issue and b) any other phone with a capacitive screen will have the same problem.

    It just pains me to see people who will literally find the smallest thing to bitch about.
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    11/26/09

    @iDeNoh: A huge advance in cell phones is not the same as a huge advance in cell phone technology. Everyone knows Apple does not sit on the bleeding edge of technology. What they do well is make amazing UIs and that is what they did here, they made a smartphone you didn't have to be particularly smart to use. You can claim this wasn't a huge advance but I've got some sales figures here that shows the cell phone market would beg to differ. There is a reason Apple became the most profitable handset manufacturer.
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    11/27/09

    @The Lab: don't feed the troll; he's obviously an idiot if he believes what he says.
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    Image of iDeNoh iDeNoh
    11/27/09

    @The Lab: No, what apple did was take already existing technology, couple it with a pretty good ui, and mass hype the fuck out of it to their adoring fans, lets just assume for a moment that buying an iPhone wasn't the "trendy" thing to do, imagine how the sales would have been if people didn't have that weighing down their decision. and seriously, do you honestly think that people buy apple products for their function? it has ALWAYS been form over function with them, always. you can say apple is the most successful handset manufacturer all you want, but that doesn't make it true. Nokia is by far the most successful company at the moment, their market share is like 40%, fourty freakin percent man, and they *suck* right now. imagine if they were making good handsets.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/27/09

    @iDeNoh: Whoa, Apple has a higher profit than Nokia and growing marketshare. I don't know what your definition of "successful" is. MArket share don't mean shit if you aren't making money.

    On the design tip, a good ui IS function. Their design philosophy has always been to make products that are intuitive to use. And they are.
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    11/27/09

    @The Lab: Dude, your whole argument is based off of YOUR opinion of the UI, just because you think its a great UI that doesn't make it any good, if anything its counter intuitive and locked down to shit. There are far better interfaces than pages and pages of icons on a grid.
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    11/27/09

    @iDeNoh: Actually, dude, my argument is based off of stellar iPhone sales, which I am saying is because of the UI. You think it is fanboys but why are there so many fanboys? (hint: it is the UI)
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    11/27/09

    @The Lab: do you honestly think that a majority of the iPhone users didn't buy the phone because its the trendy thing to do? If you honestly believe that you're more naive than I thought possible.
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    11/27/09

    @iDeNoh: Stop trolling. Just.... stop.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    11/25/09

    In reply to Upgrade Your Current Flashlight to an LED Flashlight
    It costs $30.
    Couldn't you get the full LED flashlight for that much?
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: Or hell, build one with parts from... RadioShack. Or even buy one at the dollar store.
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    11/25/09

    @deanbmmv: You can get some serious power over at DealExtreme for under $20.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/25/09

    In reply to Opening Up a Sega Genesis Leads to a Genesis iPhone Dock, Naturally

    And yes, these lighters are worth $115 each.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06:38 PM

    @Segador: HOLY CRAP. I need them both.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    In reply to Upgrade Your Current Flashlight to an LED Flashlight
    You know Gizmodo has damaged you somehow when you read 'flashlight' more than once to make sure you got the vowel straight.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well, it's quite possible that somewhere on the Internet you can also find a DIY project to repurpose your current Flashlight for a LED flEshlight too...
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Try looking at the post and getting ready to edit the "typo" before realizing that he really did intend to write "flashlight"...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Glad to know the Giz staff shares our affliction.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/25/09

    In reply to Opening Up a Sega Genesis Leads to a Genesis iPhone Dock, Naturally
    One of the better looking consoles of all time.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen
    As a Canadian I have to say: quit being pussies and just take your gloves off.
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    Image of bleek bleek
    11/25/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: When it's -20 I don't like to take off my gloves, eh.
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/25/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:
    As an Arizonan I have to say: haha suckers!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/25/09

    @bleek: Hands stay warm for more than long enough to change your music. Just don't be a pussy.
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    Image of bleek bleek
    11/25/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: It takes me 10 minutes to find a song I like on my ipod :(
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    Image of natelock natelock
    11/25/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Or just do what I did, get gloves where the tips of the fingers fold off.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/26/09

    @natelock: Those are retarded. They don't keep you warm in the winter. Not in a real man's winter.
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    Image of Friedhamster Friedhamster
    11/25/09

    In reply to How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen
    Today on my bike ride home I wanted to change the album on my iPod classic 80gb, didn't want to take my gloves off...

    Used my tongue...
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    11/25/09

    @Friedhamster: I used my cats paw one time on my iTouch.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    In reply to Opening Up a Sega Genesis Leads to a Genesis iPhone Dock, Naturally
    Where's the Dreamcast iPhone dock? Make it so.
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    Image of spudhed spudhed
    11/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: make one yourself, although youd have to cut a DC case sadly
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @spudhed: No, if I had a DC, I would play with the DC, the way it was meant to be.
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    Image of spudhed spudhed
    11/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: so get one, mine cost the grand total of five pounds from a car boot sale with 2 pads and 2 mem cards
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    Image of Josh_Geyer Josh_Geyer
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    Two: One to do it ironically, and the other one to get it.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    I've heard of planting bulbs, but this is ridiculous...
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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Well...here is one we did 3 years ago to convert one to an LED light bulb:

    [www.rainydaymagazine.com]
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: Just one. But it takes them all night. And when they're done, the washing machine doesn't work right.
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    11/24/09

    @Duckspwn: 'but it takes HIM all night'?
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    11/24/09

    @Ninety-9: Technically, him/her and he/she is. But I was lazy, so I just put them/they're. Sshh Sshh, it's okay. Everything will be alright.
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    Image of franco1975 franco1975
    11/24/09

    In reply to DIY Light Bulb Planters and Mini Terrariums Bring Too Many Puns
    Wont the thin bulb glass break if you accidentally knock into it?
    How many severed arteries from a broken light bulb does it take to change the light bulb idea?
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    11/24/09

    @franco1975: it takes some practice. youll break on or two, then youll be a pro. my old roommate used to hollow them out to use them for... illicit activities.
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    11/24/09

    @danger the pirate: Apple EULA violations? Torrenting? The suspense is killing me.
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    danger the pirate promoted this comment USB_Humping_Dog was starred USB_Humping_Dog was unstarred
    Image of franco1975 franco1975
    11/25/09

    @danger the pirate: whats this illicit activity ?Does it rhyme with black-pike?

    #tips
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    Image of danger the pirate danger the pirate
    11/25/09

    @USB_Humping_Dog: ghetto vaporizer. put weed in hollowed out lightbulb. hold lighter so flame barely licks lightbulb. breathe deep!
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    11/25/09

    @danger the pirate: Interesting. I'd rather use a hookah, though, with cheap vodka/water ratio of 50-50.

    #tips
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