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Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies
sp3cialk79 writes "Researchers from Philips Electronics plan to describe a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer's emotional response to what the characters are experiencing.
'People don't realize how sensitive we are to touch, although it is the first sense that fetuses develop in the womb,' says Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior scientist who will be presenting research done using the jacket at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference in Salt Lake City.
The jacket contains 64 independently controlled actuators distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators are arrayed in 16 groups of four and linked along a serial bus; each group shares a microprocessor. The actuators draw so little current that the jacket could operate for an hour on its two AA batteries even if the system was continuously driving 20 of the motors simultaneously."
Cause I just envisioned someone wearing this jacket in a seedy "adult" theater.
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Do not wear during during Die Hard.
This jacket sounds expensive, but the pants are half off!
I think you're grossly underestimating popular cinema's appetite for overstimulation.
Lets just hide his body
"The thump of a bullet hitting your back in a shooter would be nifty directional feedback"
Yeah, that's like the first thing they teach you in the Army. Always turn your back to the enemy. If a hostile is dumb enough to shoot you, you can easily extrapolate their location from the force and angle of penetration.
Unlike with the rumblesuit, smell-o-vision would be an absolutely horrible idea for porn.
Property is theft.
The single best use of this device would be to constrict and asphyxiate anyone in the cinema who insists on talking or fidgeting or generally disrupting others during the film. I would be especially in favour of its use on disruptive children, of all ages.
Force choke!!!