HOWTO use a touch-screen without shucking your gloves (use a sausage)
According to this Korean news site, shilly Koreans have figured out how to use their iPhones and other electrostatic touchscreen devices without removing their gloves: instead, they use miniature sausages, which are close enough to a human finger in composition to trick the screen into responding.
IPhone frenzy in the mini-sausages 'maekseubong' a special (via Kottke)
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