Most haptic implementations fall under the banner of tactile feedback, which simulates surface texture, typically using vibrational motion. The activators that generate this are a key area of ...

Mastering your laptop means mastering its inputs, and having a good touchpad (also known as a trackpad) can truly make or break your experience. Touchpads haven't always had a great reputation for ...

Haptics, or the sense of touch, is increasingly being incorporated into the connected experience to enhance communications, services and entertainment, and is spotlighted in a white paper commissioned ...

Concertgoers get fitted for haptic suits created for the deaf by Music: Not Impossible, during an outdoor concert at Lincoln Center on July 22, 2023, in New York City. The violins reverberate in the ...

From virtual reality to rehabilitation and communication, haptic technology has revolutionized the way humans interact with the digital world. While early haptic devices focused on single-sensory cues ...

The touch screen is taking over cell phones, and soon mobile computing and even desktop computing. Both Apple and Microsoft are working on a transition to touch-enabled versions of OS X and Windows.

Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series on red-hot display technologies to watch in 2011. If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the ...

Marcia O’Malley, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Engineering and professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Rice University. Haptic devices, which enable communication through touch ...