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The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by pianoplant to c/showerthoughts

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I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I'm sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've seen nail polish that supposedly allowed them to work with touch screens, kinda like gloves that work with them. I dunno how well it works; I don't paint my nails (or have long nails to begin with). I just remember seeing it on the shelf while at Walmart and getting shampoo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The thing that confuses me about those nail polishes is like, anyone who uses nail polish to the point where they'd consider that would also be using a clear top coat, which seals the nail and would prevent the conductive nail polish from doing it's "thing"

...also it wouldn't work on most devices because most screens are capacitive, not resistive. Like you can use the backside of your nail on your screen with normal nail polish on and it'll work, because it's about the surface area and capacitive difference, not about closing a circuit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lead-based nail polish

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Intentionally making contact w your nails sounds awful. Who wants to listen to tap tap tap? How would that even work anyway? The polish isn't gonna be on the tip, would you have to turn your fingers upside down?