A New Direction for Game Controllers
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 00:00
in Physics & Chemistry
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.
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