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Surfing the Web Haptically
Chakat sent us a story about Haptic feedback, a buzzword ready technology where the mouse provides tactile feedback in addition to letting you click on your porn. Seriously I would love a bit of feedback when my mouse moves over a button or a link: Sorta like how modern window managers can snap borders to edges of other windows or the screen when moving or resizing... I think that a similar tactile thing for buttons would ease mouse navigation. Or else I can just continue binding ridiculous things like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Meta-F8 to every little action.
Can I get haptic feedback on those pictures of blue naked people at Burning Man? I'm not sure that's a good idea after all.
Those X-10 bastards would have a field day with this.
Seriously I would love a bit of feedback when my mouse moves over a button or a link: Sorta like how modern window managers can snap borders to edges of other windows or the screen when moving or resizing...
But imagine the virtual "gravity well" sucking your mouse into the ad banners.
Brings a whole new meaning to "real time black hole".
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
OK, looking at porn is one thing, but being able to feel up a woman without ever meeting her? How many women will stand for that(even pr0n stars)? If there are so many why aren't they walking up to me on the street and offering? Is it that much different if shes there or not when I do it? Can you honestly say "I've never felt up a woman" after using this technology for pr0n? Things are getting a little too weird.
So far today there have been articles on tactile mouse feedback, replicators, and browser spyware that records mouse movements. Of course, we already know that the porn industry will be the first to utilize these things to full effect, but can you imagine what it would be like to use all three? Imagine images the react to your mouse movement and give you tactile feedback, all while replicating on your desk!
I like to play children's songs in minor keys.
"We're all sons of bitches now." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
"On Wednesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off a handheld computer that understands which way is up and where it's being touched."
His wife was, reportedly, fuming on the sidelines of the press conferance. Apparently, she was mumbling something about the invention resulting in her role being usurped in the couple's sex life.
"Old man yells at systemd"
I stumbled apon what I now know is a simulation of Haptic feedback several times in the past. To enable this simulation, simply eat corn/potato chips in the general vicinity of your mousepad.
Of course, the bumps don't really correspond to whats on the screen, but every once in a while, damned if it doesn't seem that way!
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15 years ago, when the Atari 2600 ruled the roost and Ms. Pacman came out for it (what a great game given the console's limitations), my mother (who was very good at it) claimed that the game would sometimes physically drag her down tunnels to her demise. She *swore* she could feel the joystick tugging in the wrong direction, despite her best efforts to go elsewhere. Having opened the joysticks several times, I tried my best to convince her that this was *not* possible, but she refused to believe me. So my mother would really rather not have anything to do with any *more* haptic input, thank you very much.
How about instead of Haptic feedback, someone invents slapstick feedback!
When you click on an banner ad, you get a pie in the face!
Not only is it time to start thinking more seriously about using the 4 other senses...
My computer already makes use of the sense of smell...
"My processor's melting, my processor's melting!!"
I am the hub of Jack's digital lifestyle.
One word: Prozac.
Explanation: Do you know what a car looks like when it's stored in thousands of little ziplock baggies? Every nut, bolt, screw, and washer labelled as to where it came from?
I bought so many Ziplock baggies from my local warehouse-style super-saver grocery store that they had the cops meet me outside. They thought I was a big-time drug trafficker. When I invited them to my house to show they my car, they couldn't stop laughing and shaking their heads.
That was when I got help.
OTOH, it's very easy to find a water pump pulley bolt as I reassemble the engine.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.