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...Tactile Response - when you press on the Thunder's screen, it pushes in "just" a little bit (the whole screen is sort of like a big button) and you get immediate "real" feedback - you hear an audible clickety sound, and can feel a buzz in your finger where you actually pressed on the display... More

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Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea and the University of Nevada in the US have developed a flexible tactile display that can wrap around the finger like a band-aid. The device could be used as a Braille display, among other applications... More

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...She says Microsoft is using some of the multi-touch technology from Surface (which debuted at D5 last year) to enhance Windows 7. Larson-Green pulls up a brand new app, “Touchable Paint.” She uses all 10 fingers to draw a tree. Then, she brings up a photo gallery. Noting that multi-touch makes it faster and easier to manipulate photos, she demonstrates … well, she demonstrates a lot of

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...On a search for some answers, we reached out to Mary Lou Jepsen, the former chief technology officer of OLPC and a founder of PixelQi, who is working to design the XO-2’s dual-touch display. We caught up with Jepsen to find out some details on the screen-centric XO-2. How have you converted the dual-mode display in the current XO to one that is touch capable? What makes this screen different

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A pet robot that communicates with humans only by touch is being used to probe the way the oft-neglected sense bolsters our emotional relationships. The findings could be used to make humans' relationships with robots and other pieces of technology more emotionally rewarding... More

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... NHK’s display is made up of an array of tiny pins that physically press through to the user’s fingertips...An optical touch panel recognises where individual finger-presses are made, and the system can both respond to contact or actually guide a user round a dynamically-changing GUI by creating graphics and icons made up of raised pins. That would be of particular use to blind users; the pins

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The LDS6010/LDS6040 controllers' haptics driver is a sophisticated block capable of delivering the crisp response required to achieve advanced tactile effects. The driver supports both ERM (eccentric rotating mass) and LRA (linear resonant actuator) vibration motors, enabling flexibility in system design for deploying an advanced haptics platform. A smart watchdog timer monitors the PWM input and

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Samsung Electronics announced on 13 that it will adopt Haptic technology for the next model of MP3P ‘YEPP P2’ carrying 3 inch touch screen as Anycall Haptic phone sales reached 100,000 units in one month after release. “Haptic technology is essential to all touch based mobile devices. MP3P adopting the technology will be released within this year.” said Park Du-eui, the Head of planning team in

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Apple Inc is in talks with Immersion Corporation to licence Haptic Technology for its iPhone. Immersion Corporation on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO... More

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Immersion Corp. on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO. Richardson starts today, and is expected to be appointed to Immersion’s Board of Directors at its next board meeting... More

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Special guide to the peculiar-looking but innovative devices available to artists, designers and gamers... ... haptic devices - which supply physical feedback and differing input solutions - are fast becoming a viable option for gamers and games developers, specifically artists.... More

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...There are 22 kinds of vibration in total built into the phone...It's the second new handset launched on Tuesday in South Korea that plays on the sense of touch but the other, LG Electronics' LG-SH240, isn't quite as high-tech. The latter phone has a layer of silicon over the front of the phone to give it a little elasticity and make it feel to users like they're touching human skin... More

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...One notable feature of the device's touch screen is a haptic feedback capability, where a user feels a slight buzz when a touch is made to an on-screen keypad. During demonstrations, Sprint and Samsung employees said the haptic feedback, also called vibe tones, means that people can use the device while wearing winter gloves, which isn't possible with the iPhone... More

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From: Chris Ullrich Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 4:05 pm **Editor's note: this email's attachments can be downloaded from: Fax back form Solicitation Gabriel, Immersion is setting up a research loaner program and is soliciting project proposals. Can you forward this to the Haptics-L list? The details are found below and in the attachments. This information is also available on our website at

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...Since the PlayStation 3 has shipped, the system has used what Sony calls a "Sixaxis" game controller. It looks almost identical to the gamepads that Sony makes for the PlayStation 2, nevertheless features internal gyroscoping capabilities so users can tilt the controller up, down, left and right to control the game. The interactive capabilities of the Sixaxis controller drew criticism from

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This project involves a group of PhD students from the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Our aim with this web site is to publicly experiment with user interface design prototypes, implemented on the Apple iPhone utilising its built-in variable intensity actuator and multi-touch screen.... More

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Click here for a Slashdot.com discussion on this topic A controller developed at Carnegie Mellon University allows computer users to manipulate three-dimensional images and explore virtual environments not only through sight and sound, but by using their sense of touch. The device, expected to be used mainly for research, training and industrial purposes, comes close to the sensitivity of the

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Network Architectures for Distributed Haptic Virtual Environments (HAPNet) School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ref: 08/100317 How can we send a third sense over the Internet? We are about to enter the ‘second age' of the Internet, where it is being reengineered to deliver time sensitive services such as voice and video in contrast to its previous best effort-only

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From Internet Revolution, Written by Mary E. Shacklett. A master violin teacher in Canada and a student in Atlanta interact in high-quality video as if they were in the same room. A Stanford University medical student practices telesurgery techniques through haptic (touch) applications over a reliable Internet connection, while an expert surgeon from across the country guides him. All of this is

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SiTEL is a hospital-based (Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Washington Hospital Center) organization of 75 employees who create cutting-edge console games and simulations for training physicians and other medical practitioners.... More

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The person in this position will be responsible for developing finite element-based soft tissue representations that supportreal-time interaction with surgical tools. The successful candidate should befamiliar with the extensive prior work in the field of surgical simulationincluding finite element formulations (both traditional nonlinear approaches aswell as various real-time approximations),

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INTERNET EVOLUTION MAGAZINE:Console video game users have the sensation of feeling on-screen explosions and crashes when their handheld game controller shakes and rumbles. This form of haptics technology is making its way to the Web as developers create applications with “force feedback” to transmit a virtual sensation of touch over the Internet. Haptics is bi-directional “touch” technology,

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...A year and a half after the stroke, caused by a lesion the size of a lentil in a region of her midbrain, Dr. Roush began to feel tingling on her body in response to sounds. Today, more than ever, she feels sounds on her skin. The first time it happened, Dr. Roush was channel-surfing when she heard the voice of an announcer on a local FM station. When the announcer started to talk, she

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The EE who co-invented the electret microphone was recently recruited to help create the world's first graphical "haptic" display for the blind...... More

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