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Germans Stole My Idea! Haptic Feedback Keyboard
Posted: 12 Nov 2011, 21:52
by ripster
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/fing ... to-touchs/
"Near surface attraction"
I proposed this sometime ago at Geekhack.
10 Feb 2010, 23:22
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?8837 ... witch-idea
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Fuck Gemany.
Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 01:01
by webwit
Old.
Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 01:11
by Findecanor
Did you even watch the video? That haptic keyboard is not the same thing as a keyboard where magnets provide the resistance in the key switch. Totally different.
This is not.
I would not want to need to wear a glove with metal finger tips each time I want to type on my keyboard.
Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 01:42
by ripster
Findecanor wrote:Did you even watch the video?
Of course. Did you read my linked thread?
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Please ignore the nickels.
I'm suing those Korean fuckers too!
Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 01:59
by mintberryminuscrunch
Findecanor wrote:[...]I would not want to need to wear a glove with metal finger tips each time I want to type on my keyboard.
they are working on that. give it some time.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011, 23:21
by hemflit
Findecanor wrote:I would not want to need to wear a glove with metal finger tips each time I want to type on my keyboard.
Needs to be
electrostatic instead of magnetic.
<trollface>Problem Maxwell?</trollface>
Posted: 16 Nov 2011, 00:04
by ripster
How about using Lenz's law? We either need to make the fingers more conductive or are back to the magnetic glove problem.
Do ALL Brits talk like this?
Fucked up Christmas tie though.
Posted: 16 Nov 2011, 12:40
by hemflit
The guy's explanation sounds weird. I don't think you can magnetize copper like that, I think the magnet is just inducing current in the tube (not lengthwise but going in double-circles just above and below where the magnet is, and at the edges of the "window") and this current produces an EMF inside the tube which slows down the fall.
In any case, yeah, conductive fingers no thank you. But electrically charged fingers through ES induction, without wearing anything special on them, that might work.