Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andrea Debortoli ha scritto: It's an hard thing to tell if it could be useful or not...it's a totally new feature (I've never seen something similar), and I think we can evaluate it with practical test only. I've an old iFeel Logitech mouse with haptic support (vibrate on actions). Under Linu

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/3/08, Gilbert Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know how this compares to the feedback on the Wii when using the > keyboard? It sounds fairly similar (save for the Wii's lack of a > touchscreen) > > - --Bert It should be simi

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I played with the motion sensors just eyeballing the raw data in hex and > I think they're going to be very responsive and cool. > > >> Motion sensors? >> motion sensors are accelerometers...isn't it? >>

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-03 Thread Robin Paulson
On 03/03/2008, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help > you find a button or tell you whether you pressed the right one. All > it does is tell you that you pressed a button at all. That might be a well, that mimics the fee

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Gilbert Hartmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Kersten wrote: > That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, > adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay > it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it > meant that the Fre

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
It's an hard thing to tell if it could be useful or not...it's a totally new feature (I've never seen something similar), and I think we can evaluate it with practical test only. 2008/3/2, Marko Knöbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/3/2, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I have doubts abou

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Marko Knöbl
2008/3/2, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help > you find a button or tell you whether you pressed the right one. > Actually it CAN help you find a button. Please read the section "Fingertip-Over-Edge Event" in the article.

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/2/08, Andrea Debortoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what about this?? > > http://code.google.com/p/iphone-haptics/ > > it would be very useful to have on FreeRunner too!!! > I have doubts about the usefulness of vibrator feedback. It can't help you find a button or tell you whether you presse

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > > > 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > > > That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! Howe

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am So 2. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: > > - gpg control packet > > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > > > > > > 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > > > > That looks like it could potentially be

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread joerg
Am So 2. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: > - gpg control packet > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > > > 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > > That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, > > adding features to the

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > 2008/3/2, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, > adding features to the Freerunner at this stage w

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Andrea Debortoli
2008/3/2, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, > adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay > it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it > meant that the Freerunner had such feat

Re: iphone-haptic

2008-03-02 Thread Tim Kersten
That looks like it could potentially be extremely useful! However, adding features to the Freerunner at this stage would presumably delay it even more. Personally, I'd be willing to wait another month if it meant that the Freerunner had such features. This would address one of the biggest problems