Boulder Creek Fest

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Agloves

Who says gloves and summer don’t mix?

Come to the 24th annual Boulder Creek Festival to try on Agloves, and maybe snag a free pair?

Jennifer and Jean will be at the event, mingling and talking fashion technology to everyone who wants to hear (and maybe those who don’t want to hear too!).

Agloves gives away touchscreen gloves at the Boulder Creek Festival.

People mingle, Saturday, on the first day of the Boulder Creek Festival which hosts its 24th annual event this weekend.

Can’t make it to the Festival? We’ll also be at the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day. Jean will be running with a video in (an Agloved) hand, documenting the run and showing people the best glove fashion since Jackie O.

Making moves, and making movies. We like this.

Keep connected the way the French might…

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Agloves

Au Natural, the Way Connection Should Feel:

By Jennifer and Jean Spencer

Recently, Apple ran this ad (quoted below). Touchscreens, and therefore — connection — should feel natural. Running your fingers along a touchscreen should be easy an natural allowing for the gain and sifting of information to flow from your fingertips through the device and back to your eyes.

Agloves keeps this possible throughout the cold months. Forget having to peel off your gloves to access your device (sooo un-natural, and thus so out-of-fashion, duh).

Because Agloves are knit with real silver throughout the glove fabric, Agloves maximize the conductivity in your hands. Why would you want to do such a thing? Well, most touchscreens are capacitive; meaning they take little bits of bio-electricity from your fingers and hands to communicate with the device. Agloves piggyback off your hands (au) natural bio-elecricity by putting silver over the top. Silver, as the most conductive metal on the Periodic Table of the Elements, allows the body’s natural bio-electricity to pass through the glove material and onto your device’s screen.

Voila. Au Natural.

Keep connected. The way the French might.

Multi-Touch.Everything’s at your fingertips.

Technology is at its best when it feels completely natural, almost like there’s no technology at all. That’s Multi-Touch on iPad. You use your fingers to do everything, so everything you do — surfing the web, typing email, reading books, and swiping through photos — is easier and a lot more fun. How does it work? When your fingers touch the display, it senses them using electrical fields. Then it instantly transforms your taps, swipes, pinches, and flicks into lifelike actions. Just like that.

Agloves in Antarctica

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Agloves

Agloves Make It to The South Pole. Brr.

Last year, Agloves gave a sample of Agloves out to William Tinus, a researcher doing work in Antarctica.

Recently, William happened to catch Jennifer and Jean Spencer on the radio when we mentioned that we have a few pairs of Agloves all the way in Antarctica. As a thank you, William sent photos and a thank you message.

He told Agloves in an email that no other glove has worked on touchscreens in Antarctica, but Agloves work flawlessly.

Jennifer on Entrepreneurs

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Agloves

Boulder Start-Up Event & Brad Feld Teach Innovation Lessons

By Jennifer Spencer

Agloves are iPhone gloves, iPad gloves, Android gloves, winter touchscreen gloves.

Jennifer Spencer and Brad Feld emrbace at the Start-Up America Conference in Boulder, Colo.

“I sold five hundred of your gloves one morning.”
“Yes you did. Thank you,” said Jennifer Spencer, president of Agloves a top-rated touchscreen glove company.

Agloves was the second product featured on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals, a local Boulder-based Groupon spinoff that features bargain deals on local products. However despite the site’s naivety, Agloves sold 500 pairs of gloves in less than 24 hours. It was an exciting morning!

Brad Feld, the site’s namesake, is a high-tech Internet entrepreneur and managing director of the The Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital fund that invests in early stage information technology companies.

Feld sees a difference between the terms “high grown entrepreneur” and “small business owner.” Because entrepreneurs create the lion’s share of new jobs, in every part of the country and in every industry, he feels that government needs to reframe its idea of this category to more accurately describe the tremendous growth and innovation that comes from the entrepreneurial business segment.

Today, U.S. Representative Jarid Polis, Feld, Jennifer Spencer (Agloves presdient) and several dozen Boulder area entrepreneurs participated in Startup America: Reducing Barriers Roundtable, an President Obama inspired initiative that calls others to listen to, support and create change for high growth entrepreneurs. The group’s task today was to identify barriers faced by entrepreneurs and suggest solutions that will be categorized and given to the President.

Start-up America is making a stop in eight cities across the United States. Boulder, Colorado was stop number seven.

For more information about entrepreneurial ideas click here.

what’s cooler than a touchscreen glove?

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Agloves

Agloves Discovers the “Ove Glove”

During a recent camping trip through Utah, surrounded by a community campfire and muscle-sore climber, I discovered the coolest thing in the glove business since the mitten: The Ove Glove.

According to a few brief Google and Facebook searches the Ove Glove was designed to help out in the kitchen, or as the names suggests – the oven. However, in the company of a big starry Utah sky and outdoorsmen, the Ove Glove works magic with campfire cooking.

There was no way that my crew’s stuffed red and green peppers could have been roasted to perfection had it not been for the Ove Glove. With the Ove Glove on, wearers can literally reach into a smoldering campfire and pick up burning logs! In our case, we pulled on the Kevlar-infused Ove Glove to re-adjust tinfoil-wrapped peppers and replace them neatly in the fire for an all-over cook effect. Voila!

If the guy in the above video could casually pick up a flaming log, undoubtedly Betty Crocker could reach into her oven and pull out a hot casserole. We love this product.

So from one textile company to another: KUDOS! The Ove Glove. Now that’s a great idea.

Proud of our partners

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Agloves

Congrats to Jim Aikman, one of our photographers/videographers.

Hats off to Jim Aikman, Agloves’ contract photographer and videographer, for his recent work with climbing professional Ueli Steck in Nepal and Mountain Hardwear.

We are proud to promote our partner (even though Vimeo embed codes suck):

Himalaya Speed PART 1: Khumbu Training from Mountain Hardwear on Vimeo.

Here’s a link to the stuff he’s done for us with ESPN’s Winter X Games, 2011.

White House Visits Boulder, Colo

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Agloves

Federal Gov Seeks Boulder’s Advice for Jobs and Innovation

Part of the United States’ White House Administration will be visiting Boulder for advice in how to stir innovation and create jobs. This just in from the City of Boulder.
NEWS

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Contacts:

Patrick von Keyserling, City of Boulder Communication Manager, 303-441-4959

Malinda Miller-Huey, Assistant Director of Media Relations, University of Colorado Boulder, 303-492-3115

www.bouldercolorado.gov

Boulder hosts Startup America: Reducing Barriers

More than 150 local business leaders

to tell White House about fixing barriers to job creation

BOULDER – The Obama Administration wants to cut through federal red tape to stimulate the economy and create more jobs. They’re asking Boulder for advice on breaking down those barriers.

The City of Boulder will host the “Startup America: Reducing Barriers Roundtables,” a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation on Monday, May 9. More than 150 Boulder area business leaders are expected to gather at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center to tell White House leaders about federal regulations that slow job growth here and what could be done by federal agencies to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of America’s entrepreneurs.

The core goals of Startup America are to increase the number and scale of new high-growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower a greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.

“The country needs new jobs that make the United States globally competitive and provide a strong future for families,” said Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam. “Boulder’s business community has done both. We have one of the highest concentrations of entrepreneurs in the country and many of those individuals have gone on to create dynamic companies that have a global impact. This is an excellent opportunity for Boulder businesses to help federal officials understand which regulations might slow economic recovery and to identify potential steps toward sustainable job growth. We’re proud to a part of the solution.”

Using the input from the roundtables and broader public participation, the Administration will produce a report highlighting ideas to streamline and simplify unnecessary barriers to America’s entrepreneurs and innovators.

“Startup America is an excellent forum to really give businesses the opportunity to speak up about the obstacles and challenges that limit growth and competitiveness,” said University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “Developing strong business leaders is something the university is known for, and the city and the university have international reputations for innovation and entrepreneurship. We’re excited to play a leadership role in helping the White House talk directly to the people who understand the regulatory challenges and who can help point the direction to a stronger economy.”

As part of the White House’s Startup America initiative, senior Obama Administration officials will visit eight sites around the country, including Boulder, to meet with entrepreneurs and hear directly from them on ideas for improving regulations to build a more supportive environment for entrepreneurship and innovation. Officials attending the event in Boulder include: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Small Business at the U.S. Treasury Department and Executive Director of President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Don Graves; Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation at the National Economic Council Phil Weiser; and Associate Administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Michael Fitzpatrick.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners interested in attending the events can learn more by emailing reducingbarriers@sba.gov. Registration is Required.

Anyone unable to attend the Boulder event can submit their ideas for reducing barriers to http://reducingbarriers.ideascale.com. Ideas submitted to the online platform will also be included in the final report.

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Editor’s Note: The following Boulder business leaders will attend the Startup America event and are available to be interviewed in advance..

Brad Feld, Managing Director & Co-founder

The Foundry Group

brad@feld.com

720-260-4044

Natty Zola, Co-founder

Everlater

natty@everlater.com

303.919.6263

Daniel Epstein, Founding President

Unreasonable Institute