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A method for fabricating an object to attenuate thermal sensation when handling the object at non-body temperature, and an object fabricated in accord with the method. There is first provided a substrate which has a first surface subject to handling. There is then formed upon the first surface of th

A method for fabricating an object to attenuate thermal sensation when handling the object at non-body temperature, and an object fabricated in accord with the method. There is first provided a substrate which has a first surface subject to handling. There is then formed upon the first surface of the substrate a coating. The coating has an optimal density, an optimal thermal conductivity and an optimal thickness such that when the substrate having the coating formed thereupon is equilibrated at a non-body temperature differing from a body temperature and the coating is subsequently contacted with a body at the body temperature during handling, the temperature of the surface of the coating at a contact point of the body with the coating changes precipitously to a temperature near the body temperature and subsequently returns towards the non-body temperature at a rate which permits handling of the coating at the location of the first surface of the substrate by the body with attenuated thermal sensation. The coating simultaneously also minimally attenuates a steady state thermal transfer with respect to the substrate in comparison with an otherwise equivalent substrate absent the coating.

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1. A method for fabricating an electronics product comprising:providing an electronics product selected from the group consisting of handheld computers and mobile computers, the electronics product having a surface subject to handling forming upon the surface subject to handling a coating formed fro

1. A method for fabricating an electronics product comprising:providing an electronics product selected from the group consisting of handheld computers and mobile computers, the electronics product having a surface subject to handling forming upon the surface subject to handling a coating formed from an inorganic material, where the inorganic material has a density of tom about 0.05 to about 1.2 grams per cubic centimeter, a thermal conductivity of from about 0.02 to about 0.15 watts per meter-degree kelvin and a thickness of form about 0.1 to about 3.0 millimeters such that when the electronics product having the coating formed thereupon is equilibrated at a nonbody temperature differing from a body temperature and the coating is subsequently contacted with a body at the body temperature during handling, the body experiences an attenuated thermal sensation.