NEC's Tactile Touchscreen Lets You Feel What's on Screen

Senseg may have been the first company to make a touch panel capable of emulating the feel of things, granting tactile feedback, but NEC and the Tokyo Institute of Technology wanted something easier.

What they came up with was a fairly simple idea involving wires anchored on each corner of the display.

When force is being shown on the panel, the wires jerk the screen in the corresponding direction.

Obviously this idea is still in its beginning stages, and we imagine that durability isn't one of its strong suites.

We also figure the whole moving display will become noisy after a while.

Still, an idea is an idea, and we even have a video of the thing in action, courtesy of Diginfo, so we are definitely not going to complain about the concept.

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