A touchscreen's fatal flaw is its lack of feedback: imagine the satisfaction if you could
feel those Angry Birds as they flew across the screen.
NEC and the
Tokyo Institute of Technology wanted a simpler solution to tactile displays than
Senseg's electrostatic-field based tech. Instead, this device uses a wire (
yup) anchored on each corner of the display -- when force is shown on screen, it jerks the screen in the corresponding direction. You can see it in action after the break, accompanied by the restful tones of
Diginfo's narrator. If there's a better way to start a week, we don't wanna know about it.
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