[Noisebridge-discuss] Touchable Holography

[Harry Tormey]

I have seen demos for screens that do give limited physical feedback
(Basically theirs a speaker under the screen.). 

I think they are even available in some phones. 

http://www.immersion.com/products/touchscreen-feedback/index.html



On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:55:50PM -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:
> That's quite neat.
> 
> I wonder when we'll have something like e.g. a touchable iPhone. The
> major thing that annoys me about its interface is that it's got zero
> touch feedback (unlike, say, my cheap old standard cellphone), and
> therefore you can't tell by touch whether you've activated a button,
> which button you activated, etc.
> 
> I dunno how one might solve that - perhaps some sort of dynamic
> surface manipulation? - but I could see it being a Big Deal once done.
> This looks like a step in that direction.
> 
> - Sai

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