Surfing the Web Haptically

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 10, 2001 @04:53AM from the useful-interaction-or-maybe-just-buzz dept.

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.

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Argh! (OT) by sg3000 · 2001-09-10 06:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

> I once was "Ungrounded Lightning Rod" but /. slashed off my " Rod".

Dear GOD! Was it the new version of Slashdot that did this to you? All that happened to me was it quit spam-proofing my address.

Forget worrying about web sites tracking my mouse movements or sending gravity-well pop-up ads -- I'm surfing with a codpiece!

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