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TECH ADVANCE OF THE WEEK: THE IPHONE SAUSAGE

by Hazed

Touchscreen phones like the iPhone work using the electrical conductivity of your skin. That’s why poking at the screens with a pencil doesn’t work.

So what do you do if you live in a place with a very cold climate? You can’t use the phone with your gloves on, but you don’t want to take the gloves off because your fingers will freeze.

In South Korea, where it gets very cold in winter, they have come up with a solution: sausages. Yes, it turns out that snack sausages have the same conductivity as human fingers, so you can use the tasty pork product as a stylus.

And I guess at the end of the day you can eat them, too!

Source: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/meat-iphone-sausage-stylus

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