Apple patent reveals ‘iPhone gloves’ for warmer hands-on experience
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A new Apple patent has been found that will assuredly warms the hearts (and hands) of many iPhone users currently enduring a cold winter. Originally filed a day before the iPhone’s June 28, 2007 launch, it details a glove with a thin, electrically conductive, “anti-sticky” inner layer that is able to function with a capacitive touchscreen. It also suggests the glove could have apertures on the fingertips for opening and closing the more protective outer layer. Of course, the concept is far from new — just do a quick Google search for “iPhone gloves” to see a wide variety of choices — and Apple doesn’t really dabble in this sort of iPhone / iPod accessory, but if Phil keeps his hands in his pockets for the first half of the Macworld keynote, we’re gonna start to get ideas.
[Via Apple Insider; thanks, Shawn]
Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables
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