Oh My God There Are Real, Functioning Smartphones That Can Make You Think You're Touching Grass and Rocks [Guts]

Oh My God There Are Real, Functioning Smartphones That Can Make You Think You're Touching Grass and Rocks [Guts]:

There has been talk of the years of haptics technologies which would allow us to move our hand over a glass touchscreen and be tricked into thinking we were touching a fuzzy material, or some rough surface. But that was all R&D talk. At Mobile World Congress this year, however, AllThingsD found a pair of companies who have put that haptic feedback tech into functioning prototype devices. More »