Recently, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Guess Apple needs to implement voice input someway.
Perhaps not. There's a vibrational technology that sounds very promising for this and other cell phones. It uses the built-in vibration mode of the phone combined with a split second timing algorithm that is triggered when pressing on-screen controls. The result is simulated tactile feedback -- you "feel" the response in your fingertips, even though the entire phone is vibrates when pressing a control. IIRC, the article I read claims a Japanese(?) company spent 12 years developing the algorithm. Another company, Immersion, holds several (all?) patents on force feedback stuff. Personally, I'm hoping something like this is adopted for cell phones and portable devices. Otherwise, there's not a lot of good substitutes for real tactile feedback. Apologies for continuing the off-topic thread. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
