My Gloves 100% Wool Smartphone & Tablet Mitts Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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810 words · ~4 min read
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so here's the scenario for you guys and one that the my gloves
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here my gloves get your own keep your
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hands warm while using your touchcreen or mobile products so here's a scenario
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you guys have probably encountered if you live in Canada here with me where
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it's cold and stuff and that is that you're outside and you got your uh hold
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on just trying to remove this plastic thing here okay you got your winter
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gloves on they look a little something like this maybe they have like little
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skeletons on the back or maybe they don't um these particular gloves are
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actually available in a variety of different styles and you're outside
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you're like oh it's cold I'm waiting at the bus I got my sleeves down like this
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and uh your phone rings and you're like oh yeah yeah I'll just answer my phone
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no problem my phone has buttons oh wait no it doesn't cuz my phone's a
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smartphone so there are no buttons at all and you're like oh come on please
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please please this time work please well
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these gloves actually are pretty cool they're available in three different
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sizes so there's H here I'll just show you guys what it says on the packaging
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so there's small which is for 4 to 6 in and that's from the tip of your finger
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to the bottom of your palm medium which is for 6 to 8 and 1/2 in so I have
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pretty small hands for an adult and the mediums are the ones that fit me so
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these are definitely child size and then large is 8 and 1/2 in plus so basically
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what these do is they have uh silver
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threads embedded in the middle finger the index finger and the thumb of both
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hands so you can see the positioning of the thumb is oriented so that while you
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can't pinch on a page like this you will be able to you know slide and answer
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your phone you'll be able to use your thumb this way but not this way so what
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those do is they actually um allow you
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to use your smartphone or tablet with
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these gloves now they're not accurate enough that you're going to be texting
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um you know at the same rate that you would normally text but you can enter
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your password you can check you know
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your stock scroll up and down you can go
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ahead and you can you know check the Vancouver Canucks app and then with a
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reasonable degree of accuracy you can actually here I have my FTP information
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on there so I'm just going to make a new note for myself here let's see if we can
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type I haven't actually tried to type okay
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hello I am
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oops Yeah so we're not quite we're not quite there for like typing but it's not
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really the intention I mean we were talking to the guys who designed the
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product and the intention was you can at least answer your phone and not take
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your gloves off but no I mean you can if
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you're willing to sort of work at it a little bit I'm
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running late so you could send a basic message
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without too much difficulty using these so the silver uh uh fingertips are built
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into the thumb and the first two fingers not these ones most people probably
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aren't using their phone with their you know ring finger anyway so it doesn't
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seem to be too much of a factor but
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um I think that's pretty much it so
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pricing sort of ranges from like 30
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bucks to I think 50 bucks depending on whether you get them without a design or
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with a design they are 100% wool which okay except for the little bits in the
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fingertips and they are not machine washable it is suggest that you only
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hand wash them because they are made of 100% wool and quite honestly I'm going
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to have to take them off pretty quick here because they are certainly too warm
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for me to be standing around in my house using them so they work with the iPad as
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well obviously I mean if they work with the with with a touchcreen then they
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they kind of work with a touchcreen so yeah it makes it so you can actually use
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your your iPad or your iPhone or your other smartphone without too much
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difficulty here very cool oh yeah don't forget to subscribe to L detectives for
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