Experience soccer games through your cell phone vibration

By synchronizing a cell phone’s vibrations with the ball in the field, researchers have designed a method that allows cell phone users to experience soccer games in a new way. Physorg reports.

The cell phone is synchronized with a soccer ball in the field, so that the phone vibrates whenever the ball is kicked. Different kinds of vibrations let users know the ball’s location in the field and which team has possession.

The technology is being developed by a team of researchers consisting of Shafiq ur Réhman, Li Liu, and Haibo Li, all from Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden, along with Jiong Sun from Ericsson Research in Stockholm.

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emily | 1:51 PM | Technology |
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