I'm impressed. That looks like a touchscreen phone, and those typically don't recognize contact by anything other than a finger. Using it with gloves on at all, let alone thick metal gauntlets, is indeed a mighty feat.

Well, it's obviously a magic smartphone of +3 user friendliness.

There are many kinds of touchscreens, such as resistive ones, which might as well be poked and prodded with a wooden dowel. Sonic and laser-based ones are the same, it's only capacitive touchscreens that require skin contact, and even then they can be subverted through conductors, resistors, and capacitors in a clever arrangement.

A better question would be the sort of glass and frame (say, Gorilla Glass in a magnesium/titanium frame) that can withstand the rigors of medieval armored warfare, and how he charges that thing.

HaroldRowsdower said:
I'm impressed. That looks like a touchscreen phone, and those typically don't recognize contact by anything other than a finger. Using it with gloves on at all, let alone thick metal gauntlets, is indeed a mighty feat.

HaroldRowsdower said:

I'm impressed. That looks like a touchscreen phone, and those typically don't recognize contact by anything other than a finger. Using it with gloves on at all, let alone thick metal gauntlets, is indeed a mighty feat.

I recently learned that gauntlets are actually soft on the inside (can't have metal on both sides), so it might be possible to make a touchscreen-compatible one.