iPhone Haptics
2008-02-27 10:55AM PST/Work
A prototype using the pager motor in the iPhone to provide haptic feedback for the on-screen buttons is making the rounds. It's a neat idea. I didn't know that the iPhone had the capability to spin it up at 12 different frequencies.
Those pager motors are a lot of fun, my kids and I recently put together a bristle bot with a pager motor from an old broken phone, a toothbrush head and a battery. But the iPhone-haptic web page itself is well worth a chuckle. Here's my favorite quote.
Perhaps through a lack of foresight or laziness, mobile device user interface elements are based on desktop widgets not originally intended for small screen finger-based interfaces.
Perhaps through lack of foresight or laziness? Right. Academic types, they pretty much crack me up.