As you go through the specs of a certain touchscreen phone, you might have read a text saying ‘capacitive display screen’. Capacitive touch display is a touchscreen technology that uses a glass panel coated with indium tin oxide or other similar metals to serve as conductor. Simply stated, that screen, with the use of the meal coated in it, uses body heat to create distortion on its electrostatic field. And such distortion will be then interpreted as the user’s input on the device.
Phones and gadgets with the capacitive touch display are known to perform way better than its counterpart, the resistive touch display. The response with the former proves to be a lot faster and more accurate. However, issues with capacitive display screens arise during the winter season, when one normally uses gloves to ward off cold.
With regular gloves on, it is next to impossible to use a mobile phone, tablet, or a laptop with a capacitive touchscreen display. Since the body heat in your fingers are insulated by the gloves, there won’t be any responses or inputs detected by the screen. The metal lining beneath the glass won’t sense your fingers at all.
The solution for this issue is not necessarily to shift to a resistive touch screen gadget but to purchase especially designed capacitive touch screen winter gloves (touchscreen gloves). For only $17 or a little bit more, you can purchase gloves that will allow you to use your mobile device out there in the cold. These gloves are specifically engineered to channel the heat from your palms into your fingers. The gloves are usually equipped with soft metals or silver yarns in order to work as designed. Although not really as fashionable as regular winter gloves can be, they can make your winter calling and texting a lot easier than before.
