{Not Quite} Susie Homemaker

Las Vegas Mommy Blogger, Foodie, Brand Ambassador & Product Reviewer

Review & Giveaway: Agloves

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Ahh, winter. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping at your nose… and ears… and fingertips. I live in Vegas, so it doesn’t snow- but it gets really darn cold. Gloves are my must-have accessory from Thanksgiving to Valentine’s Day. I had some super cute ones that could button up or down into mittens if it got extra cold. The only problem? I couldn’t use my iPod Touch without taking my gloves off!

Enter Agloves. Here’s the science behind the gloves:

Most modern touch screens are capacitive.  Contrary to popular belief, these touch screens are not affected by the heat in your fingers, instead they interpret commands and gestures through the electric charges and conductivity of your skin.

The surface of your skin is covered with tiny amounts of moisture, salts and oils.  It is the moisture and salts in your skin which allow your skin to be conductive.  For the capacitive touch screen to work a small electric charge must dynamically travel between your finger and the touch screen.

Agloves are made with silver coated nylon. Silver has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. Agloves transfer the skin’s bioelectrical charge through the gloves to the screen.

Agloves entire glove is knitted with this unique silver yarn – not just the fingertips, to provide greater surface area for the conductive material.

The whole hand conductivity gives fingertips more conductive oomph so that for some people, texting becomes easier.

When hands become cold, even bare fingers can become dry enough to fail to work on a touch screen.

When wearing Agloves, even if your fingertips lose conductivity (because they are too cold and dry) the rest of your hand picks up the slack, and the bioelectricity travels through the glove to your fingertips to maintain your connection.

iPhones interpret both commands and gestures.  For wearers to swipe, type, pinch and pull on the screen with accuracy, then need to “feel” their screen through the gloves.  Lightweight yarns and spandex give Agloves a snug fit for precision gesturing.  Users can type on a full screen keyboards (think iPad) or do four-finger swipes (think TrackPads) because Agloves provide 10-finger functionality.

I’m not a scientist so I figured I’d let them tell you HOW they work- but I will tell you THAT they work! Like that said, I found it easier to text on my iPod (Yes, you can text from an iPod) than when I use my bare finger! It was bizarre. But the best thing about it is that when my heater was broken last week and it was freezing in the house, I could put my gloves on and still Tweet from the couch.

By the way, they’re super cute. When I read they had silver yarn I expected them to be ugly, or at least scratchy. They’re neither- they’re actually really soft &they are black with what looks like silver glitter (the silver yarn) and don’t cut off your circulation at the wrist. Yay!

Because the Agloves company is awesome, they’re giving away one set of gloves to a {Not Quite} Susie Homemaker reader. Yay!

Here’s how to enter:

Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment  &tell me what you’re Thankful for today.

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Please leave a separate comment for each method of entry & be sure to include your email address in at least one of them! Giveaway will remain open through November 29 at 11:59pm PST. Good luck!

Susie’s Note: This review was made possible by Mom Spark Media.  Thoughts are my own.

Giveaway will run from 10pm PST on 11/22/10 through 11:59pm PST on 11/29/10. Winner will be chosen using random.org &contacted via email. Winner will then have 48 hours to reply before another winner is chosen. Sorry, but this is only open to U.S. residents.

Comments

  48. I am thankful for my healthy family

    Thank you for hosting this giveaway

    Louis
    schnitzomage {at} gmail {dot} com

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  70. I’m thankful that I learned about the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and it has helped my daughter’s chronic inflammation levels drop by more than 50% in six months. I hope that if we continue on it, she will be able to get off all the horrible meds she takes for juvenile arthritis, uveitis and ulcerative colitis.

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