Mobile phones and tactile touch screens

Link: PCWorld.com – Mobile Phones to Get Tactile Touch Screens.
Oh this could be fun…

Press your finger on a cell-phone touch screen in 2007 and the screen could press right back. Immersion–a developer of tactile or haptic technologies–said today that it plans to license its new force-feedback technology to handset makers, to make virtual buttons on cell-phone screens.

Oh bring it on! Wouldn’t that be wicked if you could scroll down your text messages with your index finger and feel the device respond as it gets near the end of the list?

More at the Immersion Mobility page.

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