Comments on: Capacitive gel turns any gloves into touchscreen tappers

By: .

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:02:00 +0000

So this is antistatic (conductive) spray without the, uh, spray part. Has anybody just tried spraying (saturating, I’d guess) gloves with anti-stat spray? ACL’s Staticide is about a twentieth the price…

By: Alexander Borsi

Alexander Borsi — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:45:00 +0000

Only works with gloves that allow for soaking of a chemical into the fabric… Which means it rules out all but the cheapest of gloves, which I wouldn’t wear in winter ever. So glad I just bought some touchscreen gloves when they were on sale for the same price as these are.

Oh and if I needed to take some old gloves that I loved for some reason I would just buy a bit of conductive thread and sew little pads with it onto the fingertips. Spool of 60′ of thread = $3 which is enough for at least two pairs (1x finger 1x thumb on each glove) with some to spare.

By: jerwin

jerwin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:39:00 +0000

I am pretty sure that you can use a capacitive stylus while wearing nonconductive gloves. The advantage of touch screen gloves is that you can use simple pinch gestures. This gel might even allow you to use four finger gestures.
My isotoner touch gloves only have pads on the thumbs and index fingers. They work, but they aren’t ideal.

By: Tom Ames

Tom Ames — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:48:00 +0000

Capacitive gel? This is a triumph!

By: CastanhasDoPara

CastanhasDoPara — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:39:00 +0000

I’ve found that my oldish, but still in great shape, synthetic leather gloves work perfectly with touch systems. I don’t know if the stuff is capacitive on its own or if it is somehow been permeated with the right electrolytes or what-not from years of wear but they work.

I sort of wanted this stuff to be self-capacitive (which I am fully aware makes very little sense, mildly electro-static maybe? what ever…) so I could use it to make a stylus of a sort that didn’t need to be made out of foam, wire and a metal tube. Any ideas on that front?

By: iamlegion

iamlegion — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:57:00 +0000

Cool idea, but I’m assuming you need several coats in order to be sure the chemical soaks all the way through to the inside of the glove, to give a contact line between the actual finger and the outer glove surface… what does that do to the cold- or water-repellent features of the glove? It’s not very helpful if my fingertips get frostbit…