Haptic keyboard for iPhone developed

Haptic keyboard for iPhone developed

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Published on: 28 February, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Haptic keyboard for iPhone developed

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A group of PhD students from the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland have developed a haptic keyboard for Apple's iPhone. Their idea is to substitute the lack of tactile feedback in the touchscreen iPhone by stimulating the fingertips through vibration alerts. This basically means that when you press a button on the virtual keyboard, the phone will respond by vibrating. You can download the iPhone haptic application here, but it said to be extremely buggy, so use it at your own risk.

source: Google Code via Gizmodo

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Copy Much
Copy Samsung and LG much!??!
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Wow...is that legal?
I can't believe how much they are ripping off Samsung and LG for this. Especially LG, since they have so many devices with Vibration Feedback for there screens and controls. They have been doing this since mid 2005. And now in Early 08' it makes news because it's for the Iphone? lol. I give up.
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why would you say they are copying of anyone? They thought it was a good idea so they made an app to use it on there phone... end of story
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