Tuesday, January 14, 2014

DIY Smartphone Friendly Gloves

Found this randomly from Field & Stream online...

Outdoor Skills: Make Smartphone-Friendly Gloves


Photos by Luke Nilsson


Face it: All but the most Luddite-minded of modern outdoorsmen carry a smartphone into the stand or blind. The rub, of course, is that using these devices is impossible with gloves. Sure, you can buy touchscreen-compatible gloves, outfitted with conductive fingertip dots. Or you can save $40 and take pride in being a postmodern mountain man by running a few stitches of material through the tips of your own mitts. All you need is a sewing needle and a couple of feet of conductive thread ($11 for 50 feet; sparkfun.com).


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