{"id":604491,"date":"2009-11-09T03:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123011"},"modified":"2009-11-09T03:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T08:42:42","slug":"usb-powered-gloves-that-keep-your-fingers-warm-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604491","title":{"rendered":"USB-powered gloves that keep your fingers warm (but why?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123012\" title=\"thanko_glove\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/thanko_glove-620x390.png?resize=620%2C390\" alt=\"thanko_glove\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first reaction &#8211; when I saw today on Thanko&#8217;s web site that the notoriously silly gadget maker from Tokyo is selling <a href=\"http:\/\/thanko.jp\/product\/hot_gloves\/#USGLOM09\">USB-powered gloves with built-in heaters<\/a> [JP] &#8211; was: Who actually <em>buys<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.techcrunch.com\/query.php?s=thanko\">this kind<\/a> of stuff? I mean Thanko is a <em>real<\/em> company, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/04\/03\/visiting-crap-gadget-maker-thanko-in-tokyo-photo-set-including-unrelated-and-nsfw-upskirt-shot\/\">brick-and-mortar stores<\/a> in Tokyo (two of them), they have employees etc. But they have been surviving for years now, even though they closed their English online store last month.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123013\" title=\"thanko_glove_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/thanko_glove_2-620x341.png?resize=620%2C341\" alt=\"thanko_glove_2\" width=\"620\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can connect the gloves (black is for men, white is for women) to your computer&#8217;s USB port and expect them to keep your fingers warm while you type. Again: Who in god&#8217;s name would do that? And it&#8217;s not even Thanko&#8217;s only USB gloves, they have models that are shaped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/12\/09\/thanko-sells-usb-powered-and-teddy-bear-shaped-gloves\/\">like teddy bears<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123014\" title=\"thanko_glove_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/thanko_glove_3-620x331.png?resize=620%2C331\" alt=\"thanko_glove_3\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People living outside Japan can order the new USB gloves for $27.75 per pair plus shipping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekstuff4u.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/index\/?q=Gloves&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">over at Geek Stuff 4 U<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/R6p-HWQirxr6qsYpeWNGwsshpWo\/0\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/R6p-HWQirxr6qsYpeWNGwsshpWo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/R6p-HWQirxr6qsYpeWNGwsshpWo\/1\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/R6p-HWQirxr6qsYpeWNGwsshpWo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RMq75A_aAuE:wUQunSmkCmM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=RMq75A_aAuE:wUQunSmkCmM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RMq75A_aAuE:wUQunSmkCmM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=RMq75A_aAuE:wUQunSmkCmM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=RMq75A_aAuE:wUQunSmkCmM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first reaction &#8211; when I saw today on Thanko&#8217;s web site that the notoriously silly gadget maker from Tokyo is selling USB-powered gloves with built-in heaters [JP] &#8211; was: Who actually buys this kind of stuff? I mean Thanko is a real company, they have brick-and-mortar stores in Tokyo (two of them), they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xfR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}