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This is a new haptic game that was just released today that allows users to assemble cells to stop an epidemic… sounds good for young kids learning about cells (feel them) as well as high school kids learning about epid…

A friend of mine sent me a link to some research at Microsoft that would let you bend/twist/stretch or even squeeze your computer as an input. Sounds pretty sweet…
Not quite haptic, but still a step in the right direction with more natural input method’s!

A good friend of mine, Cary Gillenwater, sent me two articles published in this months’ NewScientistTech about haptics. One is for feeling the weather and the second Remote Robot Control that I thought I would pass on. Good stuff to add to our page of things you can do with haptics.

“Weather map interface lets [...]

The whole review deserves a look, but I especially like the part below.

This is so true. If we don’t get behind this device and push it, it may just fade into the background as something that was a great idea, but never got off the ground..

Novint has been previewing their new Pistol Grip at the Gamers Conference this past week for the Novint Falcon. The cost has gone down even further for the Falcon.  $189 for the device.  and $20 for the extra gun handgrip.  Now, I openly admit that the new Pistol Grip has no real educational value… [...]

So I have emerged from the depths of research and work. We have this great program at UNC-CH that allows staff to take classes for free. I decided to take advantage of that this past semester and enrolled in a Human Computer Interaction class taught by Gary Marchionini in the School of Information [...]