The year is 1997, and it’s around Christmas. You open your gifts to find a new accessory for your Nintendo 64. It’s called a Rumble Pak, a removable device that plugs into the back of your controller.

Apple could add haptic feedback for notifications in the MacBook Pro and other portable Macs in the future, with discrete regions of the chassis around the trackpad able to channel vibrations to the ...

Apple is interested in expanding the use of haptic feedback on MacBook devices, according to a newly granted patent filing. The patent, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and first ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series on red-hot display technologies to watch in 2011. If multitouch display technology is proliferating, haptic feedback is helping to fuel the ...

A team from the university’s Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute have created an ultrasound phased array to create mouth sensations in the metaverse. The ultrasound phased ...

New tech out of the wearables lab of Northwestern University inventor John Rogers can go beyond the simple buzz of a typical haptic sensor to mimic complex sensations on the skin. Northwestern ...

As companies compete to release the best new electronic devices, differentiation from the competition comes from the different features and components that a device can offer. Investment in these ...