Pamper your hands with heated gloves for at home

I remember it well. A few years ago, in 2019 to be exact, when the first days of autumn announced themselves, I sat at my laptop with cold fingers. I could not concentrate well and tried in vain to warm my hands on a cup of hot tea. Done I was, so done with it. There was still a whole winter ahead, how on earth would I get through it?

I ended up trying out different types of gloves. Thin gloves made of polyester and cotton proved too cold. Thin wool gloves, they turned out to be too thick. Gloves without fingers, no idea why they exist because they did nothing for me. Silver gloves, nice idea but I didn’t feel they retained heat. And besides, my hands were cold, what heat was there to hold?

Jokingly, I said to my partner that they should come up with thin gloves with a heating fuction after all. The soft little voice in the back of my head grew louder and louder, until I could no longer ignore it. What if ìI was going to invent those gloves. If I suffered so much from cold hands, I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one in the world.

And hup there we went to work. Sample after sample we developed and tested until we were satisfied and renamed our newest addition our HeatPerformance® INDOOR gloves.

These lovely gloves are comfortable to wear around the house or office. You can grip anything you want with it without fear of damaging anything. This is because the heat conductors are on the outside, running down the back of the hand and across the back of each finger. These conductors consist of flexible, thin carbon wires that you do not feel while wearing.

The heat conductors are controlled by a smart chip that regulates the temperature in 3 modes. The powerful 2600 mAh – 7.4 V lithium batteries provide a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 7 hours of warm hands, depending on the ambient temperature and the heat setting you use. These batteries are the thinnest of their kind so they won’t bother you while wearing your gloves. In a dedicated compartment – located on the inside of the cuff – store the batteries. A waterproof zipper keeps your batteries well protected.

The fabric of the inner gloves is thin enough that they give you enough freedom of movement, fine motor movements like writing or typing is not a problem. It does take some getting used to at first. The sensors in your fingertips play an important role in typing, making sure that you keep good contact with the keyboard and that, for example, you can also feel the dash on the “f” and the “j”. When wearing gloves, there is a layer of fabric between your fingertips and the keys, which is a bit of a switch for your brain. But the discomfort of getting used to it is a lot less bad for me than the discomfort of cold hands. 

By the way, on the tip of the thumb and index finger, we also applied touchscreen fabric. So without taking off your gloves, you can operate your tablet or perform simple phone operations.

For the fabric we chose polyester, this material is hard-wearing and thus lasts very long. In addition, polyester is easy to wash without fear of your gloves shrinking.

So you can just do that too, wash your gloves. Go for a hand wash or put your gloves in a laundry bag and choose your washing machine’s hand wash cycle. Do not tumble dry but let dry gently on your drying rack. Of course, you do remove the batteries beforehand and put the sealing cap back on the cable. Also take a moment to close the waterproof zipper of the pouch containing the cable.

When developing the inner gloves, we thought carefully about the fit. It had to be as close and snug as possible, so that you feel the gloves as little as possible while wearing them. At the same time, your fingers should not be restricted in their movements. That’s why we’ve also added elastane, so optimal freedom of movement remains guaranteed.