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Jennifer on TV: Making gloves for iPhone, iPod Touch, and a homemade memory game

Today on WZZM’s Take Five & Company (see video below), I showed something to help gadget owners fight the chill.

It’s cold outside and a real pain to have to remove our gloves to answer our cell phones.

Here’s how to make a pair of gloves “conductive” so they can use an iPod, iPhone, or other  touch-screen device without removing their gloves.

Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew

This is a quick and super easy project that can improve a techie’s life with just a few stitches. And it looks like Apple is thinking about making their own version of iPhone gloves.

The project comes from the book Switch Craft: Battery-Powered Crafts to Make and Sew (link takes you to this project) by Alison Lewis with Fang-Yu Lin.

I also showed a fabric memory game project that I made using instructions from Alicia Paulson’s book Stitiched in Time. Check out my interview with Alicia and enter to win a copy of her book.

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Comment from Rachel
Time: January 2, 2009, 1:36 pm

Oh these are great! So going on my “must make” list! I’ll be linking as well.

Comment from Bev
Time: January 2, 2009, 4:09 pm

Wow, those are cool gloves – if I lived somewhere colder, I’d be making them!

Isn’t it great to see the fiber arts getting involved with some technology as well as with classic designs? It brings some variety to our already strong traditions.

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Comment from Alison
Time: October 14, 2009, 3:49 pm

You do the absolute best job in showing of Gadget Gloves! Thank you so much. I <3 CraftSanity!

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