That sounds like the burton logo.

https://www.nexternal.com/shreddingb/images/burton%20logo.jpg

Fair enough, there seems to be some ways around it to me but the conductive thread looks like the best way to do it. The screen seems pretty indestructible to anything coming into contact with it (except the ground when innocently dropped...). Either way, good idea and nice ible.

 That does work, but then you have to have a battery handy. Sewing a few pieces of thread into a glove isn't really much effort, then you never have to remember your battery... plus it's so much cooler to have magic gloves ;)

It is most certainly the conductivity. The iPhone's screen is a capacitive touchscreen, and as it says on Wikipedia, "A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide (ITO). As the human body is also a conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the local electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance." Laptop trackpads and iPod scroll-wheels work using the same principle, so this glove mod can also be used for those devices.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Capacitive
And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
And for the iPhone specifics, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Screen_and_input

A bit late, If you look below you'll see I already know that...

My point is that ipods do not work with cold fingers.

My iPhone most certainly does work with cold fingers. I'm not sure you are right about this...

Ipods I have:
G2 Original (30GB)
G5 Video (30GB)
V1 Touch (32GB)
V2 Touch (32GB)

NONE of them work in the climate here, how cold are you talking?

My Ipod shuffle G1 and G2 Both work, obviously.

 My Touch G1 works fine when my fingers are cold. Here's a specific: -27. Celsius.

Mine stops working before then, about -20 C.

But some of my friends do work, so it might be just mine.

But when it gets really cold, none of them work (The coldest temperature here was below -50 C )

 Noticed the same while living my entire life in Finland. My theory is that when your hands are warm they are rarely very dry, but when they're cold they are more dry than warm hands leading to less conductive hands so maybe when they're cold the touchwheel or touchscreen recognizes them as some kind of "background noice".

Excellent theory. I think you're probably right.

 Someone probably said the same before me. Not reading all comments before posting leads to nowhere.

That or warmth=sweat, Sweat=salt, Salt = conductivity

Just stick a finger up your nose for a few seconds before you use the ipod touch, or iphone, and you'll be good as gold (no pun intended).

"It's not the heat, its the humidty"

heat would be very inaccurate and you really need to do research before you talk.

roy you are the reason why i hate people...mostly, mostly

i know im a duche bag and im sorry didnt mean for that to come out as offensive

Explain why my ipod works ONLY when my fingers are warm, no matter how thick the gloves I am wearing it still works if the tips are warm.

its called capacitive touch which means it acts like a capacitor and not any heat sensor and you cant tell if your fingers are cold or not, your body temperature is mostly constant. and if your i pod doesnt work somtimes then your in trouble and do you really think apple is dumb enough to do somthing like that where if its freezing out side the device wont work. and we are talking about the ipod touch if your getting confused about another one.

Why does it work with something that's warm then?

give me an example of somthign you used that was warm and it worked

It worked with my glove that I wasn't wearing.

im sure it dident and again is it an itouch or the older ones that you rotate