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The title says it all. In response to all those people that complained about the iPhone’s on-screen virtual keyboard lacking any tactile feedback, Malcolm Hall and Eve Hoggan from the University of Glasgow have come up with a haptic-feedback solution for the iPhone. It’s strictly a prototype and is more a proof of concept than a commercially viable haptic-feedback method.
Now, this isn’t real haptic, it’s pseudo-haptic. The entire iPhone vibrates to help you “feel” the different keys as you run your finger along the virtual keyboard or press a key. The “click” uses a two-part waveform to give the user the sensation of pressing and releasing the key – a “finger down” and “finger up” vibration. We’d rather that the device’s haptic vibration was localized to the actual position of the key-press (now that would be real haptic feedback), but baby-steps are better than no steps.
The haptic-feedback solution for the iPhone is buggy and unreliable, it’s a prototype after all. So, don’t expect any commercial launch. It’s just nice to know that people are working on this sort of thing.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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