A new touchscreen has been developed by SMK Corp that will allow users to navigate on the touchscreen even while their hands are gloved. SMK overcame the problem not by modifying how a capacitive ...

Good news, cold-climate dwellers: There is a new company entering the glove-friendly capacitive touchscreen arena. SMK, maker of telecom and electronic components has recently announced a new 6.5-inch ...

The computing power of the smartphones in our pockets has often drawn comparisons to computing machines of the mid-20th century, which themselves were powerful for their time. Our access to such ...

Capacitive touchscreen devices have always been a hassle when it's cold and you're wearing gloves. Many phones have trouble picking up any input from anything that is not skin to screen. However, late ...

During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage ...