Touchscreens that Touch Back Reach Out at SID
Posted Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007, at 9:39 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
A year ago or more I blogged about a company called Immersion that was developing touchscreens that touch back — i.e., touchscreens for mobile devices that give haptic feedback when the screen is touched, so that you can actually feel the “buttons” pictured on the screen and users know they’ve input something. Simple idea, but a really nice usability feature, I imagine. Now Immersion has unveiled its TouchSense system at this week’s international symposium of the Society for Information Display (SID) in Long Beach CA. No word yet on who will be using the tech in their devices, but it seems only a matter of time before this or something like it is fairly widespread.
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Agree, this is the wave of the future. It would be interesting if ATM manufacturers or kiosks at airports take advantage of this tech. It would be especially nice to have this at the airport kiosks.
Ooooooh. Shiny.
I already have ideas.
(BTW, that “company called Immersion” is pretty much the 800 pound gorilla of haptics. They have 200+ patents and were successful in taking down Sony for not paying licensing fees, hence the initial absence of rumble for the Siraxis controllers)