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today's 2 hot topics.

1) what country do eskimos come from? it turns out that noone I'm with today has seen an eskimo with a passport so we're unsure.
someone is claiming that they're all Russian but I'm not having that.

2) why do laptop touchpads only work with bodyparts and not common household objects?

discuss

Eskimos are Enuits or Sami from my understanding. The Enuits are towards America and the Sami are staying in Lapland (northern Finland) I couldn't be bothered looking it up so I might be completely wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

Couldn't be bothered to read all of it, but by skimming it looks like Alaska and "Russian Far East"  :dontask:

As for the touch pads... I've wondered that myself! lol.

also appears from that link that they come from SW England   :dontask:

"There are two main groups referred to as Eskimo: Yupik and Inuit. A third group, Unangam, is related. The Yupik language dialects and cultures in Alaska and eastern Siberia have evolved in place beginning with the original (pre-Dorset)"

Wow, that's totally nutso! I thought you were joking, so grabbed a few random household objects and tried to operate the touchpad.. Strangely, and totally unexpectedly, it actually didn't work... Does this mean you can't operate a touchpad when using gloves?

you can use gloves as far as i know..the household items thing was new to me as well.

might depend on what material the gloves are made from - doesnt work with wool

Touch Pads use a technology called field distortion sensing, a form of capacitance-sensing technology.

Under the sealed surface are two layers of fine electrical conductors, arranged in a grid, which create a surface electrical field.

When you touch the surface, your fingertip distorts the electrical field at that spot. I can precisely locate the touch of your fingertip by scanning the grid and sensing the strength of the distortion on each conductor.

So the assumption would be that using a pen or orther non charged item would not result in a field distortion and would therefore not result in the cursor moving.

Az

Fingernails don't seem to work, neither does the knuckle of my little finger.
 
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Further research taking place.

What about dismembered digits?

I have just chopped off my finger and tried it .... doesnt work.

your fingernails are dead, from what i understand it is the interference caused by the electrical field in your fingers cells - also - a nail may have too fine a point to actually register across enough to count as a disturbance.

i suppose you could always test it with your member if you want to do a nail comparison ;)

god that was juvenile of me.

my nail on my left index finger can operate it.

best of blonde thread this.

more testing later

Still got that knife handy Kev?

I tried it with my nose, but i couldnt see the screen

err, thanks Az.

unfortunately despite getting such an in depth answer I'm still none the wiser.

my latest experiment tells me that gloves made of kitchen roll work

A battery works (AA, in my experiment)

lol, good find, how many items did you try before you found one that worked?

my AAA works intermittently

iced finger buns from tesco's work

Permanent black marker pens do not work.

What about other colours?