The year is 1997, and it’s around Christmas. You open your gifts to find a new accessory for your Nintendo 64. It’s called a Rumble Pak, a removable device that plugs into the back of your controller.

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 ...

Haptics, the technology of feeling, is expanding into new sensations and across a wide breadth of different technologies. In the past, haptics would cause vibrations in a user’s device to alert them ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immersion Corp. (NASDAQ: IMMR), the leading developer and provider of technology for haptics, today announced it has reached significant milestones in its initiative to ...

Apple could add haptic feedback for notifications in the MacBook Pro and other portable Macs in the future, with discrete regions of the chassis around the trackpad able to channel vibrations to the ...

Andy is a seasoned technology journalist with more than 15 years experience in the mobile industry, writing for Digital Trends, Wired, and more. Andy has reviewed hundreds of smartphones and tablets, ...

Haptic technologies deliver feedback through the sense of touch, from simple vibration alerts all the way to immersive tactile interactions. In 2024, the largest market for haptics is in smartphones, ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

Most touchscreen panels have a limited type of haptic feedback or none at all. This is also true for many types of handheld or wearable devices like watches, touchpads, keyboards, a mouse, etc. The ...

In a previous article on the need for standardization in haptics, we reviewed the different standards organizations that would be ideal forums for haptic standards. In this article, we take a deeper ...

Dopl Technologies co-founder and CEO Ryan James says his startup's robotics hardware and software for ultrasound teleprocedures includes haptics to give ...