{"id":41,"date":"2009-01-14T18:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-01-20T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T23:40:50","slug":"touchy-touch-sensitive-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/2009\/01\/14\/touchy-touch-sensitive-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchy touch-sensitive gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an LG Chocolate phone, an iPod,a laptop with a touchpad, and a Nintendo DS, all of which are touch-sensitive. But then the term &#8220;touch-sensitive&#8221; is misleading. The devices don&#8217;t want any kind of touch, they need to be touched (or stroked) in a specific area by a specific thing&#8211; most preferably, a human finger because these touch-sensitive gadgets only respond to objects with capacitance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hilarious that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/01\/02\/apple_glove_patent\/\">Apple came up with a patent<\/a> for a glove that lets you peel back the tip of the finger. Silly, yes, but if you&#8217;ve ever taken a walk on a cold winter day, you&#8217;ll know why this is needed. My house is a 30-min. walk from work, so I often listen to music. Fast-forwarding, skipping tracks, and rewinding can be done with my gloves on, but I can&#8217;t turn the wheel. It&#8217;s the same with my phone. Both devices long for a human touch (or at least something that has a current running through it) It&#8217;s annoying. Sometimes, I try to scroll through tracks on my iPod using my lips instead of taking off my gloves. Yes, I have caught people looking at me in an odd way. They probably thought I was smooching my iPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an LG Chocolate phone, an iPod,a laptop with a touchpad, and a Nintendo DS, all of which are touch-sensitive. But then the term &#8220;touch-sensitive&#8221; is misleading. The devices don&#8217;t want any kind of touch, they need to be touched (or stroked) in a specific area by a specific thing&#8211; most preferably, a human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4250],"tags":[4300,4301],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-services","tag-iglove","tag-touch-screen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}