Haptic Adapters To Make Gaming More Enjoyable on Tablets

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13 Sep, 2010 7:33 pm

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Over in Japan, the Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing haptic adapters for touchscreen devices, or put simply, physical controllers for your touchscreen devices. We’ll go with tablets as an example. Playing games using on-screen controls and drawing with your finger on your tablet might be fun (for a short while) but the complete lack of tactile feedback means the experience isn’t going to be that great and limits the potential of how far you can take things.

That’s where these haptic adapters come into play. The first adapter developed is an analog joystick that you can use in place of the onscreen joystick. Looks pretty promising. Then there’s the brush device which implements pressure sensitivity so you can alter the size of your strokes.  The adapters work on both resistive and capacitive type panels.

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  • Seiche

    Or you could, I don’t know…. PUT BUTTONS ON TABLETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • gman

    I think this illustrates the point that if you need a device like this on your finger, then you are using a device for something that it was not intended for. Similar to buying a stand or a keyboard for your tablet. At some point you may go, there must be a better way. Perhaps that would indicate to some people that actually a laptop/netbook makes more sense. Are they going to start selling pouches so you can carry around these finger attachments so that you can use your tablet for gaming? I quite enjoyed this story :-)

    So let’s see, buy a tablet and you need

    -plastic thumb attachment to play games
    -a stand so the tablet will sit upright
    -a keyboard so you can input text without getting arthritis

    Anything else we need to buy to ensure out tablets can do what we need? I mean, aside from buying a laptop or netbook instead??

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  • Anonymous

    I think there’s emphasis on existing tablets.. and besides, once a tablet gets a d-pad and buttons it’ll have to be branded as a gaming machine :)

  • Anonymous

    I know you think tablets are pointless but they have several features that netbooks / laptops don’t have which I think are worthwhile enough to warrant a purhcase over a netbook or laptop. Couch surfing, passing it around to people with one hand, size and weight, using while standing up / no surface, instant on. Sure netbooks can be good for tight spaces but only if you’ve got something to rest it on. They fare poorly in those other areas.

    I know once I get my iPad again I will be using that 99% of the time instead of my netbook, that is except when I have to do work on the go (mostly just for trips), then I will bring the netbook along with me.

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  • Turget

    what youre referring to is vertical computing & thats what makes ALL the difference between a laptop & tablet

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like a suitable term but there’s zero mention of it on Google. Is this insider speak or something?

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  • Liwei Name

    quite surprising.
    how did you get the finger size in the painting app?
    as i know, iphone/ipad only gives you the touch points. (not including sizes)