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To find that gap, your fingers would have to move across, feeling a difference between a key and a gap between keys, until they feel a larger gap. Feeling diff
by 6ren 15y ago
To find that gap, your fingers would have to move across, feeling a difference between a key and a gap between keys, until they feel a larger gap.
Feeling different vibrations when your fingers at those places would impart the same information. e.g. if _ is vibration, and a space is no vibration, the function keys would feel like this:
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- AndrewDucker 15y agoIf they can react extremely quickly, and to a light touch, then maybe it will work. I'm happy to give it a go, but it really is going to have to be very impressive to allow touch typists to function.
- 6ren 15y agoAgreed it would be impressive. And quite strange, if a vibration on the whole surface had the same effect as an actual physical change ona specific part of the surface, just because that's where your finger was when it vibrated. (Reminds me of arthur dent, zapped to the RatEotU, encountering pain where-ever he touched his body, and eventually realizing it was his finger that hurt). I wonder, if it responding fast enough, you could brush your finger across it, and it would feel like there was a pattern on the surface (by it vibrating/not depending on where your finger was)... Sort of a zero-dimensional display. Of course, wouldn't work for multi-touch (though the haptic patent does seem to manage this, by creating a waveform whose peak is sharply localized).