Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Tactile Display coupled with Tactile Sensor

As Inside-Handy reports, there is an interesting development by NEC and the Tokioter Institute of Technology: a tactile display is uses coupled with sensory abilities which results in a complete tactile interaction device. In contrast to the original article, I doubt that this device provides any kind of force-feedback abilities. Real force-feedback would demand for any mechanism that can excert a force to the finger(s) or at least the sensation of a force to the mechanoreceptors in the skin. As far as I can see, there is no such think it this prototype. But watch yourself:

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