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What is it about touch-screen technology that prevents its use when wearing normal gloves?


  There are specialized gloves made for it, and they can sometimes be quite expensive. 






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Posted - January 24, 2020
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  • 34305
    Heat transfer from your finger. 
      January 24, 2020 6:29 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Thanks!  Zombies will never be able to hack my phone!
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      January 24, 2020 6:31 AM MST
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  • 44623
    Your skin is electrically conductive, gloves are not. There is a tiny electrostatic field between your finger and the screen. When you touch it, a minute current is detected by the screen of the device.
      January 24, 2020 6:39 AM MST
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  • 11015
    What Element said. 
      January 24, 2020 8:17 PM MST
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