E and I discussed this as he’s my EE goto guy. He thinks it’s a waste of $ and he uses his touchscreen (Samsung) with his gloves all the time and doesn’t understand all this fuss and need for conductive thread. I would love to try it some day. I have a book on various electronic stitchery things you can do with it (and for those applications he agrees its necessary, it’s the smartphone requirement he questions. I just have a regular crackberry so I have no idea)…

I am a fan of free fingers to do things. While I can punch number codes with gloves on, I prefer the tactile feel my fingertips provide. (Why yes, I’m still learning braille for my own curiosity).

Only after you’d started the gloves did a geeky friend point out that there is some kind of conductive thread you could just sew into the fingertips of regular gloves, making them suitable for touchscreen use. I don’t care. I want my Penny gloves. (But this tip is intriguing nonetheless.)

an alternate solution is to buy small snaps –the clear plastic ones are great–and turn the glove (any glove, hand knit or store bought–inside out..

then push the bump of the snap (the male half) through the knitting and sew in place.
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Then turn the gloves right side out. the tip of your finger is now on the flat of the snap, and the point of the snap just barely pokes through the fabric.. and it makes a great ‘stylus’ for hitting real or touch screen keys!