Etre Touchy gloves are designed to let you operate a modern touch screen device with your gloves on. However, instead of the high-tech approach of weaving some capacitive fibers into the fingertips, Touchy just lops them off. That’s right: they’re a fingered/fingerless glove hybrid – a mitten-mongrel, if you will, which leaves forefinger and thumb naked and proud.
Yesterday I was reminded of the impending winter doom as Barcelona suffered one of its two rainy days of the year, the gray sky so low over the city that it felt like we had been boxed in Tupperware. And winter means gloves. But I’m not sure that Etre’s comparison chart is quite honest, claiming as it does that the Touchies “Keep your fingers warm and dry” whilst fingerless gloves do not. Perhaps the claim should be “keeps some fingers warm and dry”?
If you do want to freeze off the most valuable appendages of your hands, then go ahead. The gloves can be had for £20, or around $33 a pair. Or, of course, pick up some regular gloves from the dime-store and dust off the scissors.
Product page [Etre Touchy. Thanks, Dan!]
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