[blindkid] Rumor: New haptic feedback touchscreen bound for the iPad 3

[Richard Holloway]

This reminds me of a piece I looked at last year at NC State. They have a day where various software that has been designed for the blind by students is exhibited to blind students. They thought this would be an interesting tie-in. There is technical equipment that is designed to offer a tactile experience of very small objects. One grasps a handle and moves virtually across items to feel them. Imagine running a probe across a surface that is not viewable, and in this case, also too small to see if one could view it.

I think this particular piece was designed for surgeons to experience the feel of vary small parts inside of a body and discover detail that cannot be accessed either visually or by touch because typical fingers cannot detect such small details. The interface is totally different, but the notion of a computer driven 3-D interface it pretty exciting.

I may be mistaken, but I think there was a way to do this in real time with a source piece being explored and the texture being magnified by the device, or the information can be stored digitally and reaccessed at a later time.

Richard



On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Carol Castellano wrote:

> This is really pretty amazing-looking.  I wonder if they can make it so that it works with more than one finger, so those really exploring through touch can get a better, more meaningful look.  Eric,  do you think we/you :-) could try contacting this guy?
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> Carol
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> Carol Castellano
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> At 12:48 AM 3/8/2012, you wrote:
>> Way cool!
>> Check it this out :-)
>> www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/07/rumor-haptic-feedback-touchscreen-boundipad
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>> <http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/03/07/rumor-haptic-feedback-touchscreen-b
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