Immersion Haptics for Mobile Devices Let You Feel Interactions

Immersion's TouchSense technology could soon be coming to your mobile device.  Sanyo Automotive has just signed a licencing deal for the technology, and others are lining up to add this feature set to their platforms.  
Typically, you use two senses when interacting with technology – sight and hearing. Immersion's TouchSense technology engages – touch – so that you can feel key presses on screen-keyboards the way you do on normal keyboards. The technology works by causing the phone to vibrate in just the right way to give the illusion of a tactile response from the screen. The screen does not move, and no special screen hardware is required. The technology works with normal mobile phone vibrator motors.According to Immersion, haptics for mobile devices will allow users to:

• Type faster and more accurately on a touchscreen – with the certainty of tactile feedback
• Sort through the clutter – with a personalized vibration in a loved one’s ringtone or message
• Know more – about who’s calling even with the sound off, about message arrival and phone status
• Stay in contact – by adding a vibration alert to an instant message
• Have more fun – with more realistic games and ringtones that let them feel the music

The Verge recently uploaded a brief video of the technology: