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With our touchscreen gloves, it’s always touché!
Imagine the following: you’re enjoying a walk in the winter cold when suddenly your phone rings. On the ski slope, you just have to take a selfie with that beautiful view in the background. While mountain biking on a beautiful winter day, you want to fire up your favourite playlist. You know what’s coming right? Those gloves that are keeping your hands so nice and warm need to come off. Well luckily, there’s a solution: gloves with a touchscreen-friendly material on the fingertips. How exactly does it work? And do our gloves also have this feature? You can read all about it here.
A touchscreen fingertip, how does it work?
You’ll have read that some of our heated gloves have a touchscreen fingertip. This allows you to operate a touchscreen without having to take your gloves off. Just to give you a little more inside information, there are two types of touchscreen technology out there:
- Capacitive technology:
you control the screen with the electrical current transmitted by your hands. With conventional gloves, this would be impossible. Touchscreen gloves contain conductive materials (such as silver or copper), which allow the electrical current from the fingers to pass through. Most smartphones use this technology.
- Resistive technology
These smartphones are controlled by finger pressure. Resistive touchscreens can be used with regular gloves, although it’s not really practical because it’s difficult to properly mimic this pressure movement with gloves.
In touchscreen gloves, the conductive wires are usually found only at the tip of your index finger and the tip of your thumb. The thinner the glove, the better it will fit and the better your touchscreen will work.
What touchscreen gloves do you offer?
We have two types of touchscreen glove:
- Gloves designed specifically for touchscreen use
- Gloves designed to keep your cold hands warm with a touchscreen function as a secondary feature.
Generally speaking, the thicker the glove, the warmer it will keep your hands. At -10ºC, you won’t be able to manage with a thin glove made from a single material. These gloves comprise at least three layers, an inner lining, padding and outer lining. It’s not hard to understand that the thicker the glove, the more difficult it will be to operate the touchscreen.
Heated cycling gloves ALLROUND
£139,95
The ALLROUND heated cycling gloves are designed to keep your hands warm on cold and windy rides in autumn and winter. The flexible, lightweight design gives you plenty of freedom of movement, a secure grip on the handlebars and good control without the bulky feel of thick winter gloves. These heated gloves for cycling are ideal for everyday rides, road cycling and mountain biking.
- Designed specifically for cycling: ideal for everyday rides, road cycling and mountain biking.
- Warmth to the fingertips: heating elements run across the back of the hand and along the top of every finger to the fingertips.
- 3 heat settings: noticeable warmth within approximately 30 seconds.
- Secure grip on the handlebars: anti-slip material on the palm and fingers provides good grip and control.
- Touchscreen-compatible: use your smartphone with your thumb and index finger without removing the gloves.
Our gloves are specifically designed to keep you warm. As we have also added electrical heat conduction, we can develop thin gloves that not only work well with the touchscreen fingertip function but that also give you warm hands in colder temperatures. Our HeatPerformance® INDOOR gloves are the product for you if being able to use your smartphone while cycling, running or golfing in chilly temperatures is important.
Heated ski gloves CLASSIC
Original price was: £139,95.£129,95Current price is: £129,95.
The heated ski gloves CLASSIC are a versatile choice for skiing, snowboarding and other cold-weather outdoor activities. They combine active heating, effective insulation and a comfortable fit to help keep your hands warm during long winter days.
- Warmth right to your fingertips: heating elements run across the back of the hand and along the top of every finger to the fingertips.
- 3 heat settings: easy to adjust, with noticeable warmth within approximately 30 seconds.
- Excellent insulation: 3M Thinsulate with 150 g on the back of the hand and 100 g on the palm side.
- Up to 7–8 hours of realistic battery life: with the 7.4 V / 2600 mAh batteries on the lowest heat setting.
If you’re more interested in the extremes and prefer skiing, snowboarding or a hike in the woods in the dead of winter, then you might have to compromise on the performance of your touchscreen fingertip and we recommend the… This glove is a little thicker so it retains heat well. On the thumb and forefinger is touchscreen fabric with conductivity, but don’t expect to be able to send an app message with it. But, you will be able to pick up your phone and take a photo, which is often the most important function when out on the road.
Heated undergloves THIN
Original price was: £139,95.£129,95Current price is: £129,95.
The heated liner gloves THIN of HeatPerformance® are made from soft, flexible and particularly thin material. They are ideal as an extra layer of warmth underneath your own gloves, but can also be worn on their own as thin heated gloves on milder days.
- Wear under your own gloves: ideal under ski, motorcycle or winter gloves for extra warmth for cold hands and fingers.
- Can also be worn on their own: use the THIN as lightweight heated gloves when temperatures are milder.
- For indoor and outdoor use: comfortable for outdoor activities, at home or at work when your hands get cold quickly.
- Extra warmth for quickly cold hands: also comfortable for people whose hands cool down easily, for example with Raynaud’s. Heated gloves do not replace medical treatment.
- Excellent freedom of movement: the thin, flexible material keeps your fingers highly mobile and makes the liner gloves very versatile.
If you buy your gloves specifically for optimal touchscreen use, then good grip is also useful. With a smoother glove, your phone will slip out of your hand more quickly, which is why our HeatPerformance® gloves are equipped with a fine silicone anti-grip on the inside.
Want to know more about the features of our gloves? You can read all about it here.
