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Flutter dress vibrates when it hears loud noises

August 13, 2012 By Brian Benchoff 6 Comments

Many people with hearing impairments have assistive devices at home that flash a light whenever a fire truck goes by, an alarm bell goes off, or the doorbell rings. With the exception of a hearing dog, these devices are useless outside the home, and this is where [Halley]‘s Flutter dress comes into play. Flutter has microphones and microcontrollers sewn … Read the rest

Filed Under: wearable hacks Tagged With: dress, flutter, haptic feedback, wearable

Robot arm provides haptic feedback from the virtual world

May 31, 2012 By Mike Szczys 2 Comments

[Diego] wrote in to let us know about the haptic feedback arm project with which he’s hard at work. He calls it the Vimphin, which is uses the beginning letters from the words: Virtual Manipulator Physical Interface. Instead of a claw, the robot arm has a hand grip that lets you easily move it around. That is unless the virtual … Read the rest

Filed Under: robots hacks Tagged With: haptic, haptic feedback, robot arm, servo, virtual

Weightlifting coach will nag you about your form…at least until the batteries run dry

March 25, 2012 By Mike Nathan 8 Comments

haptic-exercise-coach

We always enjoy seeing what Electrical and Computer Engineering students dream up for their final projects, and though we must have missed this back in 2010 when it was published, [Bruce Land] dropped us a line to bring our attention to this cool Haptic Exercise Coach.

Designed and built by Cornell students [Michael Lyons] and [Greg Meess], the Haptic Exercise … Read the rest

Filed Under: Medical hacks, misc hacks Tagged With: accelerometer, exercise, haptic feedback, mega32

Tactile computer interface with electromagnets

October 25, 2011 By Brian Benchoff 29 Comments

It’s not that touchscreen keyboards are horrible, but it’s nearly impossible to touch type on an iPad or other tablet keyboard. A team at the Media Computing Group at Aachen University figured out how to put a series of electromagnets underneath a display to provide haptic feedback for touchscreens. They showed off their tech at the 2011 UIST conference… Read the rest

Filed Under: hardware Tagged With: electromagnets, haptic, haptic feedback, touchscreen

The Laser Guided Wheelchair

June 2, 2011 By Jeremy Cook 10 Comments

Using a scanning laser similar to those used in industrial safety systems, a new wheelchair developed by Sweden’s Luleå University of Technology allows those who are visually impaired to drive it without assistance. A driver is given haptic feedback as a navigation aid, reportedly similar to using a cane.

Although something like this is good in concept, this idea is … Read the rest

Filed Under: transportation hacks Tagged With: haptic feedback, laser, visually impaired, WheelChair

Haptic feedback for the blind

December 17, 2010 By Chris Nelson 32 Comments

[polymythic] Is helping the blind see with his haptic feedback device called HALO. At the heart of the device is an Arduino Mega 2560 which senses objects with a few ultrasonic range finders and then relays the information back to the user using some vibration motors from old cell phones. The user can feel the distance by the frequency … Read the rest

Filed Under: lifehacks, wearable hacks Tagged With: haptic feedback

Haptic feedback roundup

May 23, 2008 By Sean Percival 4 Comments

Haptic feedback (sometimes referred to as tactile or force feedback) offers what some might call a brave new world of interaction and immersion. The 1932 book of the same name was probably the first introduction many people got to the idea of computer generated touch sensations. In the book, movies are replaced with what are called “feelies”; patrons sit in

… Read the rest

Filed Under: peripherals hacks Tagged With: haptic, haptic feedback, haptic technology, hapticfeedback, HapticTechnology, touch, touchscreen, touchsensor

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