The sense of touch gives you vital information about the world around you. From gripping a coffee mug to shaking hands or feeling fabric, touch helps you interact with objects and people. Beneath your ...

Marcia O’Malley, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Engineering and professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Rice University. Haptic devices, which enable communication through touch ...

With full freedom of motion, new device can generate a variety of sensations, including pulling, stretching, sliding, vibrations, pressure and twisting. When it comes to haptic feedback, most ...

The next mobile language could be felt, not seen or heard ...

TITAN Haptics launches the latest haptic motor technology for smartphones, and the industry’s first bundled motor licensing from Immersion (NASDAQ:IMMR). TITAN Haptics’ miniature motors enjoy the ...

Digital touch has lagged far behind sight and sound because current haptic devices can’t match the human fingertip’s spatial or temporal resolution. Researchers created VoxeLite, an ultra-thin ...

How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address ...

Apple uses a variety of test devices and prototypes when it is considering new iPhone features, and one such test device was recently discovered by AppleDemoYT, who shared a video today. This rare ...

As our modes of communication and entertainment evolve and achieve new heights, higher degrees of immersion and interactivity must be accessible to a broader audience, regardless of their device ...

With better latency than a generic Bluetooth dongle, too?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sacramento Kings have partnered with Ticketmaster and OneCourt to provide haptic devices for visually impaired fans at all ...