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How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With a Touchscreen
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Cogito Ergo Bibo
12/01/09

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I'm just imagining all the bar fights which will be started by some drunk trying to charge his phone. "Sure, buddy. Here, let me charge your face."
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Xagest
12/01/09

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They should make a cellphone in the form of a Yoyo. I'd be charging that thing all day.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
12/01/09

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Of course if this ever makes it to the production stage with us being the ever cautious society that we are it will no doubt have a huge warning label on it and some type of Wiimote safety strap...
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crazy0000
11/25/09

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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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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/25/09

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

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

@Him: Comfort my good man, comfort.
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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
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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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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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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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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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/25/09

@deanbmmv: Tell that to SR-71 or similar pilots.
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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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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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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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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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iheartpie
11/26/09

@deanbmmv: actually most good touchscreens do require capacative touch; else pressure is required.
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€hЯ!§
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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€hЯ!§
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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The Lab
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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The Lab
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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sploden
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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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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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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iDeNoh
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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The Lab
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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iDeNoh
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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The Lab
11/27/09

@iDeNoh: Stop trolling. Just.... stop.
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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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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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Xagest
11/25/09

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

@Friedhamster: I used my cats paw one time on my iTouch.
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Tamar Weinberg
11/19/09

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"With a 17.3-inch (1600x900) display"

I stopped there. My Dell XPS M1710 has a 1920x1200 resolution. I'll wait for the Studio 17 Touch to allow for a little more real estate.
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Voohoo
11/19/09

@Tamar Weinberg: i'm sure that's just the resolution of the base configuration. when you want to configure your machine i'm 100% positive that you'll have the option to upgrade to a higher res screen.
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Tamar Weinberg
11/20/09

@Voohoo: Before I wrote the above comment, I went to the Dell page linked in this article, chose their most expensive option, and didn't get an option to pay more to get a 1920x1200 display. I'm not sure where @ForestFire0 is seeing what I'm not, but 1920x1080 is still less screen real estate than I'm used to.

Call me too stubborn and too fixated on the 16:9. It's going to be a hard adjustment for me, I suppose, and I've been craving a touchscreen laptop for awhile. Hopefully the 1920x1200 option will be something I'll see in the foreseeable future. I'm glad I'm not in any hurry to buy a new machine.
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Voohoo
11/20/09

@Tamar Weinberg: hm, i just went to the Dell page that was linked in this article. if you go to the Studio 17 option all the way to the right ($1099) and choose to personalize it you will get numerous HD display options for it including 1080p. the other Studio 17 options they show seem to be the older models which only offer the archaic screen res. well anyway, the dang touch screen Studio laptop isn't even out yet so know one can prove anything yet. BUT i'm still very sure there will be at least a 1080p option.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/19/09

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Good specs, it's just too bad that the touch portion is a total gimmick, but for the money, I suppose it doesn't matter.
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aec007
11/19/09

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Apple Fanboy Credo:
-Damn Windows 7
-Damn Dell
-Damn, they made it multitouch
-Damn, It's only F**king $800 !

LOL
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Kaiser-Machead
11/19/09

@aec007: I'd say the specs were more of a comparison point than the touch. In this case, the touch screen is largely useless, and multitouch, doubly so. The computer itself looks good all around from what I see on the options and the price, but it really begs the question as to what this thing is really like in person, being priced as low as it is.

One thing I find about Dells is that their on-paper appeal is often lost in whatever questionable quality they exhibit in person.
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jacobestes
11/19/09

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Trackpads suck. Touchscreen is the only way a laptop seems practical to me.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/19/09

@jacobestes: Seriously, you should try to use a touch screen like this for a long period of time. Aside from the obnoxious back and forth between raising your arm to control things on the touch screen to the keyboard, your arm will get fatigued.

A mouse would do you much better.
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Woozle Wozzle
11/19/09

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I thought resistive != multitouch, thus this display has to be capacitative?
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Fractal the Meek
11/20/09

@Woozle Wozzle: Not so. Not so at all: [www.engadget.com]
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Woozle Wozzle
11/20/09

@Fractal the Meek: them's some advanced tech! I'd be surprised if dell's using such high quality components... it's dell after all

#tips
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phunnyballs
10/23/09

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The windows 7 fail was actually a sony fail and I have no idea why it is labeled a windows 7 fail #gizmodoremainders
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met2art
10/23/09

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My, my, my, my
Ego hits me so hard,
Makes me say "Oh my Lord!"
Thank you for blessing me
With cash for fines and big hyped feats
It feels good when you got Menino
And a superdope homeboy from Cupertino
In cahoots this much
And this is a billboard, you can't iTouch

Every time I see it,
It's like a dollar sign
It's dope on the wall
And I'm happy to pay fines
Now why would I ever
Stop doing this?
With others makin' billboards
That just don't hit
I toured around the nation
From Sunnyvale to Back Bay
It's "Banner, go, banner! No Beantown banner!"
but the rabble can go and play.

You can't iTouch this
You can't iTouch this
You can't iTouch this
Yeah, Y' can't iTouch this
I told you, can't iTouch this #gizmodoremainders
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Zac Terrones
10/25/09

@met2art: iPod Touch. i hated people like you when i worked at the apple store. #gizmodoremainders
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met2art
10/26/09

@Zac Terrones: Really? It's elitist and humorless attitudes like that that keep me from going inside an Apple store. Touche, zing, booyah. ;) #gizmodoremainders
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Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
10/18/09

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Hm? I find a lack of call/end call buttons strange. #android
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USB_Humping_Dog
10/19/09

@Reil found his Kotaku Star: Why? This isn't the first phone without physical call/end buttons. #android
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tande04
10/19/09

@USB_Humping_Dog: But it is a recent development for android phones . #android
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