Gloves to use with iPhone and laptop
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It is getting pretty chilly round these parts and while out wrestling the Christmas crowds I realised I had left my gloves at home, after the wife handed me the third bag of new purchases my fingers were getting bloody cold. I had seen some gloves on one of those gadget sites recently which had flip open finger tips so that you can use your mobile, so I went on the hunt for a set in little old Nottingham. No joy, but what I found was actually a much better solution for me. I got a set of North Face Etips, now they look a little geeky with their faux electronic circuit pattern on the palm and the crappy ON symbols on the index fingers but they work really well. They have a conductive part to the thumb and index fingers that work perfectly with the iPhone so you can swip etc without taking them off. I got a set in black but the North Face site shows an even more rubbish looking set in grey, see:
http://www.thenorthface.com/catalog/tnf-catalog-master/etip-glove.html?parent_category_rn=#
Overall a great purchase.
Amazon Windowshop
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I must have been under a rock for the last couple of weeks because I have only just had a go with the new Windowshop but I am impressed. Apart from the minor hickup where I got a C++ error which killed my browser it behaved brilliantly and is the best crossover of physical shop I have ever seen on the web, in fact in somes ways for me it is better than a real shop especially when shopping for CDs, you can just scroll over the album and it plays a 30 sec (or so) clip which is perfect to get a reminder of the band. Go and have a look here.
