August 3, 2006
Holding hands
A handheld device presented at SIGGRAPH in Boston this week exploits a person's sense of touch to foster illusion, reports New Scientist. Called the Perceptual Attraction Force, the device contains two rotating weights mounted on a slider.
"Accelerating one of the weights more quickly than the other and moving it along the slider makes the holder feel as if they are being pulled in a certain direction. A video shows the device nudging users around (55MB, mov format).
Developer Tomohiro Amemiya of NTT Communication Science Laboratories says smaller versions might eventually be used in GPS-equipped cellphones to point users in the right direction."
Related motion-sensing technology applied to cell phones:
-- The touchy-feely side of telecoms
-- Waving goodbye to touch screens
-- Motion-Sensing Phone to Hit Market
-- 'Body talk' could control mobiles
-- Mobile phones to turn into golf clubs and toy guns in Japan
-- Cell phone gaming: Shake the Phone
-- Japanese Phone Responds to Shakes
-- Device Turns Ordinary Cell Phones into Vibrating Game Phones
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