“People like feeling things.” That’s probably Immersion’s thinking as they explain the future of computers. They also might think since they are a haptic technology developer that haptic feedback will be everywhere. What’s haptic feedback? It’s when you receive tactile feedback — like an area of a surface vibrating when you press it. Immersion was more »

iriver’s Korean site has started showing off the company’s latest portable media player, which was originally previewed during CES 2008, the iriver Spinn. This 3.3-inch player sports and AMOLED touchscreen display and haptic feedback feature. It supports various music formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC and ASF as well as video formats including MPEG4, WM9 more »

Cowon has announced its latest touchscreen media player, the P5. Featuring a large 5-inch, 800×480 touchscreen display, the P5 boasts of haptic feedback mechanism which simulates a physical button through vibrations. The P5 runs on a fast 700MHz processor and can decode full DVD-resolution video in offline formats including AVI, DivX, MPEG-1/4, WMV and XviD. more »

I don’t see any need to do any more iPhone 3G articles on iPhone Day 2, so I would like to talk about another touchscreen phenomenon.

A new device known as the V12 is a dual LCD panel laptop. One of them is presumably a touchscreen that replaces the keyboard and trackpad. In fact, I have heard that the keyboard will support haptic feedback, so that a user can feel when a keystroke has been entered.