why do only some materials work on touchscreen, and what is in touchscreen gloves that makes them work?
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Capacitive touchscreens you see on recent smartphones use differences in capacitance to detect touch. Your body is in fact a giant capacitor. If you touch the screen, the capacitance of your body adds to the capacitance already in the system and your smartphone detects “Yay, capacitance has changed, someone has touched me!”
Pencils for example are not a giant capacitor. So to make touch work without the human body you have to use materials which mimic the capacitance of the human body. Conductable rubber works good. This material is then added to the fingertips of the glove.
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