ONCE AGAIN, WITH MORE FEELING…
Koji Tsukada and the Active Belt
you may have seen it first at coin-operated, then followed as it made its way over to near near future, until engadget picked it up, but the active belt is not the only project ‘feeling’ its way along.
The Shoulder Pad Project’ by Lucy Dunne
lucy dunne has developed a vibrotactile display embedded into a shoulder pad. collaborating with researchers in australia, her paper details the entire process from development to evaulation. also take a look at sensory substitution. there are links to kurt kaczmarek’s work on vibrotactile displays for the blind.