Tag: HAPTIC

Share It's gotten a little too easy to overspend during the holidays. The sales start earlier and end later, there are deals everywhere you look, and it can be hard avoiding the temptation to treat yourself. The good people at MIT Media Labs have you covered, though, with a new series of wallets designed to help you keep your spending in line. Each of the Lab's three designs -- the Bumblebee, ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. Can you ...

A researcher at Yale University has developed a car-safety system that uses touch, rather than sight, to warn drivers of potential danger. According to Tech News Daily, John Morrell lined a car seat with a bunch of cell-phone vibration motors that warn drivers of approaching vehicles. The motors continuously (and lightly) vibrate as the driver cruises down the road. When another car ...

Often, when people talk about the future of user interaction with computers, the go-to reference is Steven Spielberg's 'Minority Report.' But those dreams of gesture-based computing find users waving their hands in the air with no tactile feedback at all, and anyone who has typed on both an iPhone and a BlackBerry can tell you a little physical feedback is always welcome. An experimental system ...

A sub-$100 tablet could soon become a reality. According to PC World, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to develop a working prototype of its XO-3 tablet by the end of this year, and to debut the device at CES 2011 in January -- two years sooner than expected. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says the tablet will take the best parts of the iPad, Kindle and a laptop, wrapping them into a package ...

Learning an instrument can be a long, difficult process, requiring years of dedication. The 'Haptic Drum Kit', shown at MIT's Fourth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, intends to streamline and improve the learning, getting musicians up and drumming in no time. Using both audio and vibrotactile (read: buzzing the wearer) input, the player not only hears the ...

Philips has definitely done more for sensory immersion than most with its amBX line of... things, but a general shortage of people willing to mount fans or rumbling wrist rests on their keyboards hasn't kept the company from developing what it thinks is next: a vibrating jacket. The unnamed and triangle-patterned coat features 64 little rumblers distributed throughout, all powered by a pair of AA ...

This week, during his runway show at Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani unveiled a designer phone that packs some pretty high-tech, advanced features. The handset, which is manufactured by Samsung, boasts a massive 2.6-inch touchscreen, 50 Megabytes of built-in storage, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.0 Megapixel camera. The touchscreen is rumored to employ haptic feedback technology, which vibrates the ...

There's sex on the Internet, but if researchers at Northern Ireland's Queens University are successful you might someday be able to have sex over the Internet. And we don't mean steamy text chats or even a naughty video encounter. Currently underway at the university's Institute of Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology is a program to deliver the sensation of touch over the ...