Agloves.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: [small biz] COLORADO COOL STUFF

Working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., Jean Spencer found it was difficult to get her hands out of her gloves in time to answer important calls on her iPhone. Apple's touch screens depend on bio-electricity, so traditional gloves block the necessary input, so Jean asked her mother, Jennifer Spencer, to come up with something that worked. Jennifer came up with a novel solution in Agloves, gloves knitted with conductive silver-coated nylon.

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"Silver is the most conductive element on the periodic table," says Jennifer, noting that the Agloves moniker...