iPhone Gloves Take the Winter Chill Off
1:07 pm, January 3rd, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Plenty of chatter yesterday in the Apple blogosphere about the patent application for special iPhone gloves Apple filed back in June 2007, the day before the original iPhone made its commerical debut.
In the meantime, a few companies have already produced products intended to ease the need for iPhone users in the northern latitudes to actually go inside to use their Jesus Phones during the winter. Click on images in the gallery below to see the Apple patent illustration and few solutions on the market today. And let us know in comments how you manage to fulfill your iPhone jones in places where chilly winds blow.
Apple's iPhone Glove Patent Drawing
Tavo Gloves @ tavoproducts.com
Freehand Gloves @ swissmiss.typepad.com
Dots iPhone Gloves @ dotsgloves.com
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Clothing, News | Comment on this article
I warn you against the Dots Gloves. Got my two ordered pairs in November. After wearing the cheaper version about three times, one of the dots broke off. Clearly, it had not been assembled correctly, its two parts simply broke apart. The manufacturer did not even respond to my mail.
Very disappointing!
pawel_z_wrocka, on January 3rd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Jesus Phones? Is that from FSJ?
I love it!
plainshmeer, on January 4th, 2009 at 12:30 am
there are a few companies making iphone-able gloves.
North Face E-Tip, Marmot iGlove, Dots…the problem is they are all sold out.
The only solution I can find RIGHT NOW is making your own using conductive thread.
You can find it in a book called ‘Switch Craft: Battery Powered Crafts to Make and Sew’
Seems pretty easy, but I don’t think any local vendors would stock the thread.
kk, on January 4th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Being from Wisconsin, I’ve learned to use the tip of my nose. At least for answering the phone and other single touch movements. We’re hardy people and make due with what we have
Randy, on January 4th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Here another one:
http://www.thenorthface.com/catalog/tnf-catalog-master/etip-glove.html?parent_category_rn=
Couchsurfer, on January 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
While I don’t have an iPhone (but do have a hankering for the touch – is that the Simon Peter of iPods?), I still have my iPod photo, which is the only thing keeping me sane walking the dogs. When I need to adjust anything I simply take off a glove, fiddle around, and put the glove back on. Here in New England, where it often drops to the single digits, and sometimes lower, we use the phrase “Man Up.”
I’ll get an iPod remote off eBay before I spend 20 bucks on a pair of winter dress gloves that isn’t leather, or work gloves lined with Thinsulate® for Sno-Blowing and shoveling. Think these doohickey-contacts will work through Thinsulate?
If it’s too cold to take off your gloves, it’s too cold to stand around playing with your iPhone.
imajoebob, on January 4th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Couchsurfer posted a link to The North Face’s Etip glove.
http://www.macnuggets.ca/Hardware-Nuggets/using-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-with-gloves-in-cold-weather-winter.html
You can find a quick review of those gloves here
Joe, on January 17th, 2009 at 10:50 pm