Textured Tactile Touchscreens 99
HizookRobotics writes "A new covering developed by Senseg and Toshiba Information Systems gives touchpads, LCDs, and other curved surfaces (eg. cellphones) programmable texture using a high-resolution electrotactile array — a grid of electrodes that excite nerves in the skin with small pulses of current to trick the body into perceiving texture, pressure, or pin-pricks depending on the current amplitude and electrode resolution. The new covering has many potential applications: interactive gaming, touchscreens with texture, robot interfaces, etc."
Pinpricks? (Score:5, Funny)
There's a new way to present the user with error messages!
more like adult toys (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pinpricks? (Score:2, Funny)
I know some users that do need electric shock therapy to stop doing dumb things
Personally, I welcome ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:This could let the blind use touchscreen device (Score:4, Funny)
First they'll have to think about the best way to add a braille interface to a fly.
TTTT (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pinpricks? (Score:4, Funny)
This reminds me of the old cheesy sci-fi shows where a rogue computer/program/programmer/hacker shocks the victims to death through the computer keyboard. Begin a very technical person, I used to just scoff and laugh. If only I knew then that it would one day be possible.
Re:Pinpricks? (Score:3, Funny)
Too true. ...
Once had a woman from the customer service dept. call me because her computer "had a virus" and she couldn't open any dialogs anymore. Turns out one of the keys on her keyboard was stuck
Re:No Thanks... (Score:5, Funny)
Have you considered your netbook might be badly grounded?
Re:Let me be the first... (Score:3, Funny)
Get healthy steady relationship, buy pill..
use more than one type if you don't want little ones.
They have a pill that stops crabs?
Re:Pinpricks? (Score:3, Funny)
Meh, I'll stick to blinding them by setting pixels to #ZZZZZZ.
Re:Wow, again with the Star Trek tech! (Score:3, Funny)
My first flip phone was a Motorola Star Tek, which did resemble the original Star Trek communicators.
Typoos are a bitch, aren't they?
Indeed they are: it was a StarTAC [wikipedia.org].