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  • Immersion wants our phones to be even more touchy feely

    Immersion wants our phones to be even more touchy feely

    MWC 2010: Debuts new haptics sensor 25 February 2010 9:01 GMT

    Immersion, the company that specializes in technologies that make your mobile phone buzz has revealed a new "HD" sensor that promises to give you more feedback than ever before.

    Called haptics, the company that already has their technology...

  • VIDEO: Synaptics Fuse phone interface gets demoed

    VIDEO: Synaptics Fuse phone interface gets demoed

    Would you like your future phones squeezy as well as touchy? 25 January 2010 14:18 GMT

    There's been a lot of interest in Synaptics' futuristic "Fuse" interface for touch-based control of smartphones, although figuring out how it works in practice from just text and images isn't that easy.

    That's why we've managed to dig out a...

  • PHOTOS: Synaptic Fuse phone wants you to squeeze your way around the interface

    PHOTOS: Synaptics Fuse phone wants you to squeeze your way around the interface

    CES 2010: More ways to interact than you can shake a stick at 8 January 2010 1:14 GMT

    Synaptics first talked to us about the "Fuse" touchphone concept in December last year, and a month on has now got a working proof of concept to show off at CES in Las Vegas.

    We were in the right room at the right time to have a play.

    The...

  • Advanced Synaptics Fuse touchphone concept revealed

    Advanced Synaptics "Fuse" touchphone concept revealed

    Current smartphones have only scratched the surface of mobile touch-based interaction 14 December 2009 17:08 GMT

    Known for pushing innovations in human interface solutions, Synaptic's announcement of the Fuse concept mobile phone, developed with global partners Texas Instruments, Immersion, TheAlloy, and The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), hints that the future of touch-based...

  • Immersion settles with Microsoft. Biz, Microsoft, Immersion, Lawsuits 0

    Immersion settles with Microsoft

    Courts rule in favour of Microsoft 28 August 2008 1:31 GMT

    Microsoft is $20 million better off on Wednesday after settling a court case with Immersion Corporation, the company responsible for make stuff vibrate when you touch it.

    In a press statement issued on Wednesday, Immersion and Microsoft...

  • iPhone to get haptic touch. Phones, iPhone, Apple, Rumours, Immersion, Nokia 0

    iPhone to get haptic touch

    Insider sources say Apple in talks with Immersion 28 April 2008 8:25 GMT

    It seems Apple is currently in talks with Immersion to licence haptic technology for its next-gen iPhone, if recent internet reports are to be believed.

    Palluxo.com reports: "A source (Apple Inc employee), who chose to remain anonymous,...

  • Immersion's tactile touchscreen gets Korean GPS debut. Car And GPS, GPS, Biz, Immersion, CTT-Net 0

    Immersion's tactile touchscreen gets Korean GPS debut

    World's first PNDs with TouchSense 23 October 2007 12:15 GMT

    Immersion Corporation, a developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, has announced that a new licensee, CTT-Net of Korea, is launching the world's first personal navigation devices that use Immersion's TouchSense technology to provide tactile...

  • Sony confirms Dualshock 3 controller for PS3 . Gaming, Sony, PS3, Immersion 0

    Sony confirms Dualshock 3 controller for PS3

    Are you ready to rumble? 20 September 2007 8:00 GMT

    At the Tokyo Game Show Sony president Kaz Hirai has finally officially confirmed the existence of the Dualshock 3 controller for the PS3.

    Although he did not mention pricing or exact availability for any territories, the Dualshock 3 will...

  • Sony and Immersion settle lawsuit. Gaming, PS3, Gaming hardware, Sony, Immersion 0

    Sony and Immersion settle lawsuit

    Best of friends now 2 March 2007 13:36 GMT

    Sony and Immersion have put aside their differences and announced that rather than fight it out in the courts will join forces instead.

    The two companies have agreed to conclude their patent litigation at the US Court of Appeals for the...

  • LG goes tactile with VibeTonz deal. Phones, Mobile phones, Phones industry, LG, Immersion 0

    LG goes tactile with VibeTonz deal

    Rumble in the jungle 26 July 2006 12:39 GMT

    The next mobile phones from LG are likely to rumble following a deal with Immersion and LG Electronics.

    The company behind the technology that makes the PlayStation2 controllers rumble, has just announced a new partnership with the fourth...

  • Immersion wants to make your mobile touch sensitive

    New technology lets you feel the press of a virtual button 4 July 2006 11:57 GMT

    Immersion, which calls itself the "vibro-tactile technology expert", has developed technology that gives you the sensation of pressing a button when you push a virtual button on a touch-screen.

    VibeTonz is an inexpensive and robust way of giving...

  • VibeTonz set to vibrate your mobile phone

    Forget ring tones, forget voice tones, the next big thing according to Samsung and Orange is going to be VibeTonz 18 January 2006 10:55 GMT

    Forget ring tones, forget voice tones, the next big thing according to Samsung and Orange is going to be VibeTonz.

    Samsung is set to launch a new phone that vibrates to music and games to immerse you into the action.

    Jointly developed...

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