My range hood has touch button controls. Just the slightest touch of a finger changes functions. I never gave any thought to how this works. This morning, I had just finished wiping my hands with a paper towel and had it still wrapped on my hand. I touched the button to turn the exhaust fan on with the finger covered by the paper towel. ..... Nothing..... I pressed a little harder..... still nothing. I took the paper towel off and brushed the button ever so lightly. The fan came on. How does that work? Obviously, it's not pressure that turns it on. But what?
Maybe we have already been implanted with the chip and paper towels and having damp fingers interfere with the chip connecting to our tech gadgets!
I've got that too! But since his vision is fading away, I often pull still dirty dishes out of the cabinet...so now I'm he's learning how to load the dishwasher.
It must be brand dependent. The appliances in our house are touch controls. I leave finger prints on them, when I use them. My wife fusses at me for leaving fingerprints My wife wipes the fingerprints off with a bounty towel and the stuff turns on and off and changes settings, etc. Which is apparently all my fault. I can fold a single sheet of bounty and simulate 2 sheets and both my Kindle and Smartphone (LG) work. I can fold the sheet over again, simulating 4 sheets and the Kindle no longer works, but Smartphone does. Another fold to simulate 8 sheets does not work on the Smartphone. I did not attempt any of this on the appliances, lest my wife see me and think I have committed to a new precedent.
I just tried again with a single layer paper towel on my finger and couldn't get it to type on my iPad.