Comments on: How to use touch-screen mobile phones in the snow

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:32:46 +0000

And sausages work too: http://kottke.org/10/02/meat-stylus-for-the-iphone

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:54:08 +0000

I find 5 and 7 yr olds are quite useful in these situations. Don't seem to feel the cold, and addicted to iphones.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:48:22 +0000

Wasn't me I don't have a touchscreen. A mate in the UK discovered this while trying to lick the gravy he had spilt off his. Clumsy!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:32:34 +0000

Graham, surely focusing whilst navigating will lead to cross-eyed-ness and headaches?

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:17:49 +0000

I am reliably informed that the tongue works very nicely and has the advantage of cleaning the screen too (Although it may turn a little icy if really cold)

By: Steve Ritchie

Steve Ritchie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:34:40 +0000

I often laugh to myself (thus soliciting strange glances) when I think about the Dragons Den Multi-country WhichSideOfTheRoadToDriveOn System.

Which, IIRC, was two gloves, with “L” and “R”” on them. You were supposed to wear the “L” glove only when driving on the Left side of the Road, and “R” on the right hand only, etc…. the idea being that if you forgot, you just needed to look at your hands.

Many uses for gloves, indeed!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:56:16 +0000

I have taken to pulling my thumb out of the glove, leaving the rest of my hand nice and warm. The radiant heat means my thumb doesn't actually get too cold, but I look like a pillock in the process!