Electric Shocks

[John Rumm]

Do you have any difficulty getting touch screens to respond to your touch?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Dense hasn't got a strong suit.

[Tim+]

I had about 18 months of reduced "touch screen touchiness" after a cold injury to my fingers. I presume damage to the autonomic nerves in my fingers reduced their sweatiness, and hence conductivity.

Tim

[Capitol]

Almost always unless I wet my fingers!

[dennis]

Perhaps you want to explain what you think is wrong with what I said?

[polygonum]

For years, my partner suffered lots of static shocks when no-one around her did. They reduced considerably when treated for long-standing (but hitherto unrecognised) hypothyroidism. When I became hypothyroid, I started to get them as well. Now, with treatment, we are both just about "normal" - occasionally she or I might get one, but not especially frequently or severely.

[Davey]

We used to have a dog who actually enjoyed the effect of touching us with her nose behind our knees, and watching the resulting response as the victim reacted to the shock. This was in Michigan in winters, so the air indoors was dry and condusive to static charge. She appeared to suffer no effects from the experience.

And I had a site boss once who had been struck by lightning, and afterwards had no sense of hot or cold. He would sit there in winter in his shirtsleeves, whereas everybody else was wrapped up in coats and scarves.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Tim+ escribió:

There's two types of touch screen, resistive (inferior) and capacitive. Finger sweatiness would affect the response of the former, but not the latter.

[Johnny B Good]

There! fixed your post for you. :-)

[Johnny B Good]

It's the fact of there 'only being you living here', that might result in 'only you dying here' is the worrying part of that last sentence. :-(

Of course, if you're a fatalist' (and all the signs point to that possibility), you may not deem it as worrying a thought as most of the rest of us might. :-)

[Tim+]

iPhone. Isn't that capacitive? It was affected.

Tim

[Cursitor Doom]

"there are no muscles in the hand to contract just nerves, the hand control muscles are in the forearm"

[Cursitor Doom]

[Cursitor Doom]

Curious! What could possibly account for that, I wonder?

[Cursitor Doom]

You're an astonishingly perceptive individual I must say. You'd make a great diagnostician.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Tim+ escribió:

Yes, it is. Maybe I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time :)

[John Rumm]

I was thinking primarily of capacitive (they have a hard feeling to the resistive ones have a softer feel where the surface "gives" slightly as you push on it).

I know of some people with very dry skin that have difficulty with capacitive touch screens rather than resistive ones.

[Tim+]

Actually, I think it's just my failing memory. ;-)

It's suddenly come back to me that it was an old TomTom sat nav unit that wouldn't play ball with me.

Tim

[dennis]

So I meant the fingers. None of those muscles can cause you to grip anything which is one of the thing mentioned about just letting the point of contact go

[michael adams]

The question as to whether the hand contains muscles, is purely a question of anatomy and physiology. Not of medicine which is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

Well neither have yourself or Doom by the looks of things.

Not at least if knowing the meaning of simple English words such as "anatomy" or "medicine" were to be made an entry requirement.

While you may not be able to sue this private school you attended for historical sex offences by teachers, on present evidence you seem to have a good case for suing for them for historical illiteracy at least.

michael adams

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New Libertarianism consists essentially in scraping the barnacles off the bottom of one of Philip Green's yachts; in the hopes that some of his magic will rub off on you.

And maybe the price of a cup of tea.