Mobiles Get a Sense of Touch

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2677813.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2677813.stm</a><br /><br /></div>"Within a year you could be able to 'touch' someone over your mobile phone. A US company called Immersion has adapted the sensory technology used in gamepads and joysticks to send physical sensations via a mobile."<br /><br />Hmm, I can see all sorts of... <i>interesting</i>... consequences. :D

[Bob Anderson]

OK... now this is scary.

I guess we'll be replacing "phone sex" with "PDA sex" ... or is it "Pocket Sex" or... well... I think I'm going to put this post out of my mind now :lol:

[Sven Johannsen]

I'm thinking more of the many times I've wanted to reach through the phone and choke the living sh.... well you know.

[szamot]

Time to look for a pouch and get that phone out of my pocket, then again maybe not. I like the choking the living poo poo idea very much. I wonder if these will be sold as plans.

Voice Package $50
1X package $50
1-900 Sensual touch $100
IT support Choke hold $PRICELESS

This will be too funny.

[Janak Parekh]

I'm thinking more of the many times I've wanted to reach through the phone and choke the living sh.... well you know.
Indeed. We don't need tactile features, but rather a "remote shocking" feature. :D

--janak

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

I'm thinking more of the many times I've wanted to reach through the phone and choke the living sh.... well you know.
I can see it now...

"Mr. Customer Service Rep, would you mind putting that phone near your neck for just a second!"

Seriously, this reminds of a company that was trying to introduce "smell" technology to the PC... just not sure if there's a true need for this...

Well... at least not for mobile phones...

[garrans]

When I was 15 (17 years ago) I went to New York for the first time, first day in the city, ran an errand to the store for my mum. Came across the stereotypical New Yorker on a public phone yelling "You f...in hear me, (slam)(slam)(slam the phone against the booth), You f....in get me my money (slam slam slam).

Now I see this thread and I think, this guy could use technology like that. At least he wants the guy on the other end of the phone to have it.

(I'm not kidding about the above, young Australian in the big apple for the first time seeing this ... "Welcome to NYC !!!!")

[vincentsiaw]

as soon this technology exist, i will buy a seperate cases for the ppc, will not put it in my pockets, either shirt or pans pocket hehhehe

[Steven Cedrone]

Reminds me of pt and his "Operation" experiment... :wink:

http://www.flashenabled.com/mobile/operation.html

Steve

[Fzara]

Now this has to be the most interesting invention of the 21st century.

I mean, video/audio is good enough, but the touch ability?
If this ever was introduced, I could definitely see the potential in the medical field and using this to help and diagnose patients.

PS: Wow, phone sex is being brought to a new level.

[Tom W.M.]

I have a force-feedback Logitech mouse that uses Immersion's software for desktop computers. It's a pretty weird sensation, but it could be usefull if the mouse didn't make so much noise every time I roll over a button, or hyperlink, or drop-down menu, or icon, or window edge or... :crazyeyes: