A new technology which allows computer users to feel 3-D objects, touch them and manipulate what is taking place on screen.
Magnetic Levitation Gives Computer Users Sense Of Touch
ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2008) — Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
Why use such "exotic" means for facilitating haptic interaction? We believe there are several advantages, including:
Single moving part with 6 degrees of freedom
Zero static friction
Zero mechanical backlash
High position and force bandwidths
High position resolution
Low perceived mass
Very wide range of stiffnesses possible
Mechanical simplicity, no tight tolerances
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