Touch screens are ubiquitous today. But a common complaint is that the smooth surface just doesn’t feel as good to use as a physical keypad. While some touch-screen devices use mechanical vibrations ...

By Stephen Beech A new bandage-like device allows people to "feel" textures through touchscreens. The soft, stretchable material wraps around a fingertip to give digital touch the same realism people ...

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There's just nothing like holding a new product in your hands. You can look at a thousand photos, watch a million videos and still not get a sense of the texture and feel of, say, a pair of raw denim ...

3D Touch is all well and good, but future Apple devices may incorporate advanced haptic technology which lets software simulate textures ranging from the grain of wood surface to the cold feeling of ...

You could soon be able to ‘feel’ touchscreen displays, thanks to technology being developed in Sweden. Senseg’s E-Sense technology is designed to recreate the feeling of a wide variety of textures on ...

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A patent filed earlier this week by Microsoft would allow for actual bumps, lumps, and textures to be applied to touch screens. The patent calls for the texture-enabled touchscreen to be coated with a ...

Reach out and touch whatever screen you're reading this on. What if, instead of feeling the glass or plastic beneath your finger, you could experience the texture of a brush, woodgrain, or even a ...