Gadgets and gizmos

With all three days of our finest British summer now firmly behind us and the undoubted onset of generally crap weather ready to kick in at any moment we thought it was about time that we looked at some suitably wintry gadgets of sorts and first up are known as the Dots Gloves that are designed with the mobile gadget freak in mind.

Dots Gloves have, surprisingly, a number of dots on the finger tips of the gloves so that they offer g accurate grip when attempting to control your iPod, mp3 player, mobile phone, or other mobile device. The dots look kind of reminiscent of the backs of old school mobile phone buttons; something similar, I should image, to the back of the keyboard on a ZX81 but we’re reliably informed that they are effective in their plight against slippy finger syndrome.

They may not seem that great an innovation at the moment but we guarantee that now you know about them you’ll want a pair the very next time you step out into freezing cold temperatures with nothing more than your Bon Jovi collection for company. You’ll either be regularly removing your gloves to control the iPod (and to check to frostbite) or you’ll give it up as a decidedly bad and very cold job.