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there are many touchscreen friendly gloves available for purchase but if you don't want your options to be limited or you already own a pair of gloves that you love there are a couple of easy ways to make any gloves work with your smartphone or tablet the reason that gloves don't work with your screen is because the fabric blocks a static electricity from your finger so we need a way to channel that electricity through the glove the way to do that is with conductive thread you can find the stuff online for about 10 bucks I have my thread a needle and my gloves the plan is to sew a few stitches into the fingertips I want to be able to use with the phone in this case it's my index finger and my thumb for the thumb I'll put stitches closer to the edge of my finger which is where I would touch the screen for a pinch to zoom gesture now if I did this correctly it should work with my screen it won't work with my fingerprint scanner of course but I should still be able to unlock my phone and enter my password oh yeah it works perfectly let's try that pinch-to-zoom if it's not working for you or the connection is inconsistent go back and add a few stitches to make sure there's a good connection between your finger and the conductive thread another way to make your gloves touchscreen friendly is by using a product called nano tips it's a conductive liquid specifically designed to make any gloves touch screen friendly and according to the company this will even work on those thicker leather gloves in my case I have another pair of regular knit gloves that I'm going to try this on but this time I'm going to make sure that there's a buffer between two sides of the fabric for that I'll use a spoon so just put the spoon up through here and the way nano tips works is you just use the brush to completely saturate the fabric whatever part is covered by nano tips should work with your touchscreen if you let nano tips air dry it'll take a couple of hours but if you want to speed up the process you can use a hairdryer and that should only take a couple of minutes feels dry so I'll take the spoon out and give this a shot okay so if you're finding that it's not responsive you might want to go back and add a few more layers of the solution to make sure that there's a really good connection but once you're there you should be able to use the gloves with your touchscreen with no problem and what's great about nano tips and even the conductive thread is that you should have enough material to take care of more than one pair of gloves