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Originally Posted by crane3
My recent renewal of my driver's license also told me that buttons are better as DMV had used touch terminals for a person to do the test; luckily, the test wasn't timed as I cursed a few times trying to the get test screen to do the mark on my answer touch on several questions.
Maybe there is something about my body as I decided to go cotton clothing after seeing a 2-3 inch spark between my car key & the car's keyhole when going to unlock the car door. I was also subject to getting static shocks when touching the old Marchant metal calculators (comptrometers(sp?))
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You must be my twin, capacitive touch and I just don't play nice together for the same reasons. I'm someone that no one wants to touch in the wintertime because they'll get zapped. I swapped out all my wall switch covers to wood or ceramic to keep me from getting zapped every time I use a wall switch, but the metal screws would still get me. You'd see a little spark arc between the screw heads and my finger, I wouldn't even have to touch the screws. I found plastic screws at Amazon and at least now I can use wall switches without getting zapped. Until I forget myself at someone else's house at least. Someone once told me I need to be locked up in a Faraday cage.
At least I've never gotten zapped by a reader, but that's why I won't ever buy a reader with capacitive touch, it has to be infrared and that works well for me. And I prefer no buttons, but as long as they were unobtrusive and not in a position where I'd be accidentally hitting them, I could live with them. But they'd basically be decorations, I wouldn't use them if given a choice.