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i-gloves?

16th December 2009, by Wendy King

The North Face Etip

How about the latest in high-tech gloves?

If you like to travel around the pistes or town with your i-Pod or i-phone, then taking your mitts off to use them can be frustrating – not to mention rather chilly.

The North Face Etips are a three-season ‘sticky’ silicone grip glove, with an ‘X-static’ fabric on the tip of the index finger and thump – this is woven with silver to give the electrical conductivity needed to use resistive touch screens on your MP3 player or phone. And apart from the techy-wizardry, they actually make a very warm pair of après-ski, late season or general wear gloves. [I use a non-techy version for hill-walking and love them - Ed]

Neat gift. And they only cost about £20

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• gloves
• north face
• etip

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