Tuesday, March 01, 2005
New Scientist Breaking News - The touchy-feely side of telecoms
Samsung's new phone can allow you to hold hands with someone a long way away - by using haptics, i.e. touch. All very interesting, but is it actually useful and more than just a gimmick? Hard to tell at this stage - it'll be fun and trendy for a short while, but unless it really catches on it's not much use - I mean, if no-one else has one, yours is pretty useless..... Sile O'Modhrain (from the now-defunct MLE) says that this is just scratching the surface (no pun intended, I'm sure) - she's a smart cookie who happens to be blind, and has an interest in this area, and also in musictechnology and the potential use of haptics there.
Samsung's new phone can allow you to hold hands with someone a long way away - by using haptics, i.e. touch. All very interesting, but is it actually useful and more than just a gimmick? Hard to tell at this stage - it'll be fun and trendy for a short while, but unless it really catches on it's not much use - I mean, if no-one else has one, yours is pretty useless..... Sile O'Modhrain (from the now-defunct MLE) says that this is just scratching the surface (no pun intended, I'm sure) - she's a smart cookie who happens to be blind, and has an interest in this area, and also in musictechnology and the potential use of haptics there.
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