Make Your Gloves Touchscreen-Friendly With TapCaps [VIDEO]

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A new Kickstarter project aims to bring touchscreen-friendly control to your favorite gloves.

If you've ever tried to use the touchscreen of your phone or tablet wearing gloves, chances are you had a little trouble. Designed to respond to your fingers, not your clothing, touchscreen devices can't tell you're touching them when your digits are covered up in your favorite pair of mittens.

While there are certainly gloves out there you can use and still text and tweet away, what do you do when your gloves weren’t made to be used with smartphones?

This is where Kickstarter comes into play. A new project called TapCaps is attempting to solve the whole glove smartphone problem with stickers you can place on your gloves that can then be recognized by your smartphone.

The capacitive stickers mimic the human body, and put out the same amount of electricity as you do naturally through your finger.

The stickers will be able to be placed on any glove – no matter what material it's made out of – and will be “comfortable, safe, waterproof, coldproof, reliable, and stable.” While TapCaps promises to stay in place while you put it through the paces, the stickers can also be removed from your glove when you need or want without leaving a residue behind.

The company hopes to offer an array of colors for the stickers as well, so you can select one that blends perfectly with your hand wear of choice.