Tuesday, April 02, 2013
#CHIPS: "Smartphones Harness Haptic Tactile Feedback"
Smartphones have long have "vibrators" to silently let you know when a call is coming in, but now these so-called haptic effects are being used for gaming, navigation and to provide more realism when viewing videos by allowing the user to feel the action. Texas Instruments has licensed over a hundred such haptic effects for its new DRV2605 haptic driver chip that is being built into smartphones, tablets, ebooks, refrigerators, microwave ovens and even washing machines: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
