Without modern electronics, mankind would have limited access to Bach's symphonies, Hitchcock's films, and Bob Saget's dog and baby voice-overs. Keep entertaining appliances operating through the winter months with today's Groupon: for $15, you get a pair of touchscreen gloves from Touch It Gloves (a $35 value, including tax and shipping).

Touch It Gloves’ eponymous cold-weather accessories enable wearers to operate touchscreens while keeping digits sheltered from wintry elements. Paws of almost all dimensions can nestle snugly into the knit fabric as they cozily flip and click through all manner of touchscreen device such as phones, music players, and electronic shoelaces. The mitts swaddle hands in a variety of colours, including purple gloves that combat midwinter doldrums and ebony-hued gloves for black-tie texting galas. Online orders typically take two to four weeks to arrive.