Hey, it's winter here and the average this week has been about 35°F. So needless to say I'm wearing my gloves a lot. The problem with gloves is that you usually have to take them off in order to use devices with a touch screen such as your iPhone or iPod touch. My friend Linda was showing me some gloves that she picked up that had special tips on the end of the index finger and thumb to allow you to make proper contact with a touch screen.
So needless to say I went in search for a pair of my very own. I had no luck finding any locally and didn't want to spend a lot of time fighting the crowds doing their holiday shopping. So I turned to online sources and found a pair of Tavo gloves. They arrived and I started using them immediately.
How well do they work?
They do work as advertised. I was able to use my iPhone with minimal effort with the gloves on. I was even able to tap some of the smaller icons such as the Mail trash can.
However, the one problem I did have was trying to do pinch moves with the finger and thumb. The special conductive overlay tip on the thumb works, but it needs to wrap around the top more to be effective for pinching. Pinching and expanding with two fingers worked fine, but then required two hands.
The Bottom Line
If you want to keep your hands warm and use your touch screen/pad devices then these gloves are a good fit 
Other than pinching gestures they work great. You can get them on sale here. See more of my favorite iPhone and iPod touch accessories here.
Tavo Gloves
Tavo gloves for using touch screen devices.
- Tavo Gloves
- Tavo
- $27.95
All info was collected on 27th December, 2009 when the app was reviewed.
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
Great product post, thanks, Terry. Even in Florida, we need gloves. My daughter and I were JUST saying we need to get some gloves. As we are both iPhone users, these will be great.