March 2011
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Rubbery muscle motors to make robots more lifelike
Soft and stretchy artificial muscles could one day fulfil the functions currently carried out by more complex mechanical means. “The muscles themselves are electroactive structures consisting of two layers of conducting carbon grease separated by an extremely stretchy insulating polymer film, says Anderson. “It can stretch by more...
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There will never be a replacement for real human... →
I want to be a professional baby cuddler.
January 2011
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a virtual reality lab where its engineers can test... →
December 2010
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WANT: Falcon Demo →
I’ve seen this before, but this page is full of awesomesauce demo videos. I don’t like guns, but that gun attachment is way sexy.
Forget about games that rely on overly complex button combinations to control your actions. Novint’s groundbreaking touch-enabled games allow you to realistically feel and interact as you play, letting you “become” the character.
Pick...
thundersnake asked: Do you know anything about Novint's Falcon technology?
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WatchProverbial Wallet: Financial Sixth Sense. We have trouble controlling our consumer impulses, and there’s a gap between our decision and the consequences. This is magnified by the digitization of money. When we pull a product off the shelf, do we know what our bank account balance is, or whether we’re over budget for the month? Our existing senses are inadequate to warn us.
The...
October 2010
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August 2010
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“The Institute for Functional Escapists has a vital mission: to cultivate tactile...”
– Institute for Functional Escapists
I don’t know what’s going on here, but I like it!
(via tedr)
July 2010
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Haptics brings a personal touch to technology →
The basic goal of the technology we are developing at Disney is to create a perception of texture - to let people ‘feel’ objects on screen by stroking them with their fingers.
We do this by applying a high voltage to a transparent electrode on the glass plate - in this case people will feel a texture on the glass. By varying the frequency and amplitude of the signal we can create...
June 2010
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The Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the... →
I will be able to navigate music, my Netflix queue, photos and play games with gestures and motions. “Natural human interfaces” will replace even the predictable swipe of my fingers or poking at keyboards. Touch will officially die. I wonder what Darwin would think of all this.
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$63 + Brains to make a Haptic Glove
I came across this Final Project by some students at Cornell University. I was chatting with a friend about what it would take to make a haptic glove and was pleasantly surprised at how affordable it is. I think this would be a fun project for a hackerspace!
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HAVE Conference - Oct. 16-17th, 2010. →
Haptic Audio-Visual Environments & Games. October 16-17, 2010. Phoenix, Arizona.
Papers are being solicited on all aspects of multimodal haptic audio visual virtual environment technologies and related haptic applications, including Haptic sensors and renderers, Hapto-audio-visual systems and applications, Hapto-surgical/medical systems, Haptic compression and prediction, multimodal...
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Touch influences impressions, study →
A new study has shown that touch influences impressions along with other factors like what a person sees or hears. The touch sensations like hardness, texture or weight can significantly influence impressions and also decisions.
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IEEE Transactions on Haptics Call for Papers:... →
Topics of interest include:
1. Haptic environment properties and human haptic perception as relevant to medical examinations and procedures
2. Haptic systems and the role of haptics in training and evaluating clinical skills
3. Using haptics to improve the performance of medical interventions
Timeline 15 September 2010 Deadline for submission of papers 15 December 2010 First decisions to...
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CSS Haptics Proposal →
Interesting idea to support CSS properties specifically for haptics. Requires the Starlight browser.
The browser provides support for haptic feedback in web applications via CSS properties. The developer can control what kind of feedback the device provides for element tap event. Also the strength of the effect can be adjusted. The CSS properties below.
-webkit-haptic-tap-type can have the...
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Haptic Technology Award goes to Pacinian Corp. →
Pacinian Corporation has been awarded the Frost and Sullivan 2010 North American Technology Innovation Award for Haptic Technology.
“The Haptic Touch technology based on the concept of surface actuation from Pacinian has the ability to deliver an enhanced user experience with reduced component and electronic cost,” said Amritha Sridharan, Senior Research Analyst from Frost and Sullivan. “The...
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Magnets in your fingernails: get a sixth sense... →
Quinn Norton and others have had magnets implanted in their fingertips, which is very interesting, but slightly icky, and Quinn’s magnet fragmented and kind of swam around in there for a while. Sticking the magnet to your nail is a lot less surgical, though it’s less permanent, too.
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WatchVirtual Braille Dots - The following movie shows activation patterns of the actuators that induce the sensation of virtual Braille dots. When the slider on which the tactile display is mounted scans over a virtual dot, a traveling wave of skin deformation moving in the direction opposite to the slider movement and with the same speed induces the impression that the dot being explored is...
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DIY Sex Toys & Teledildonics →
“We’ll be hooking up sex toys to anything we can get our hands on, making teledildonics free to those brave enough to put homemade electronics on their genitals. We hope they’ll take pictures, too, ‘cause we sure as shit ain’t testing this stuff on ourselves.”
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Haptic Vest Lets You Feel Bullets and Knives In... →
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haptic blog: My High Haptics Horse →
Ok, regarding an earlier post just now (and forgive me, because this tirade is being conducted from an iPhone)- I am thoroughly appalled at how limited people are at understanding the perceptive abilities of their own bodies. The senses are far more interconnected and reliant on one another than…
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Robotic Surgery: Laparoscopic Procedures
Robotic surgery is just like it sounds, the use of robots in performing surgery.
According to Wikipedia, “Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery and unmanned surgery. Some major advantages of robotic surgery are precision, miniaturization, smaller incisions, decreased blood loss, less pain, and quicker healing time.”
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EuroHaptics 2010
EuroHaptics 2010 will take place in Amsterdam from July 8 to July 10, 2010. It is the major European conference for researchers in the field of human haptic sensing and touch enabled computer applications.
A total of 121 papers and 30 demos will be presented in the following areas:
Perception & Psychophysics
Neuroscience
Haptic Rendering
Devices & Technology
Medical &...
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Real Touch
Real Touch is a super advanced sex gadget for men. The form factor is sleek and the tech behind it makes it hard to not be intrigued even if your “aren’t” into porn.
The device uses some material that feels like skin. When in use, lubrication is released and the the device warms up to body temperature all while gently squeezing for “perfect tightness.”
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What is Haptic Technology? →
Haptic technology or haptics, is a tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user.
It “does for the sense of touch what computer graphics does for vision.”