Keep Your Gloves On When Using This New Touchscreen

Touchscreens are all well and good, but they don't exactly work well if people don't take their gloves off, so people with cold-sensitive hands will probably like what SMK Corp invented.

Simply put, the company built a new touchscreen which, through pressure detection paired with a noise-filtering sensor, can work just fine even if people have gloves on.

Since cold may be a factor here, it is a good thing that the panel handles just fine the -30 to +85°C range.

Granted, it will take a while for adoption to pick up, and only in-car navigation systems will use this technology at first.

Then again, the feature does work on displays of up to 8 inches, so smartphones and, who knows, maybe even tablets could be eligible in the future.