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    1) New technologies at CES aim to enhance the sensory experience of mobile devices by allowing users to feel textures and sensations through modified screens and vibration motors. 2) Companies like Artificial Muscle and Senseg demonstrated prototypes that use advanced haptic feedback techniques, like electroactive polymers or electric fields, to create realistic tactile sensations from devices' content, like feeling a ball rolling or bumps in text. 3) These technologies could be integrated into phones and tablets later this year, adding new dimensions of interactivity, but may increase costs and it remains to be seen if they become mainstream features.

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    1) New technologies at CES aim to enhance the sensory experience of mobile devices by allowing users to feel textures and sensations through modified screens and vibration motors. 2) Companies like Artificial Muscle and Senseg demonstrated prototypes that use advanced haptic feedback techniques, like electroactive polymers or electric fields, to create realistic tactile sensations from devices' content, like feeling a ball rolling or bumps in text. 3) These technologies could be integrated into phones and tablets later this year, adding new dimensions of interactivity, but may increase costs and it remains to be seen if they become mainstream features.

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    1) New technologies at CES aim to enhance the sensory experience of mobile devices by allowing users to feel textures and sensations through modified screens and vibration motors. 2) Companies like Artificial Muscle and Senseg demonstrated prototypes that use advanced haptic feedback techniques, like electroactive polymers or electric fields, to create realistic tactile sensations from devices' content, like feeling a ball rolling or bumps in text. 3) These technologies could be integrated into phones and tablets later this year, adding new dimensions of interactivity, but may increase costs and it remains to be seen if they become mainstream features.

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    the same rumble or buzz every time.

    With Vivitouch motors, users will

    have "high-definition feel", says Mr Dirk Schapeter, CEO of Artificial Muscle. The

    denly feel rough, for instance. "The palette of effects that are availa-

    ble is enormous," said Mr David Rice,

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    plastics that function like muscles. It showed off a modified iPhone that phone shook as it ran a simple ball-rolling game; the plastic muscle provided the feeling not just of the ball hitting the walls of a maze but also of the vibration it made while rolling across the floor. The vibration engines that go into today's devices consist of an electric motor that spins a metal weight and is effective at only one frequency. That means it is

    a Vivitouch "motor".

    The

    motors contain strips of "muscle". When an electric charge is applied over the strips, they expand and contract at a fre-' quency that can be precisely controlled. The next step is to get the motor built into phones. Mr Schapeter said there will be a couple of those on the market this year, from companies he would not identify. He did not say how much.the Vivitouch would cost. Also trying to cause a sensation was Senseg of Finland, which has developed a way of turning electricity into feeling. By

    vice-president of marketing at Senseg. The feature should be easy to add to tablets, since it consists solely of a chip and an additional coating on the screen. The technology could also help users "feel" a scroll bar or the boundaries of an image. Each letter in a text message could
    register as a little "bump," making it easier to select parts of the text.

    The company is

    in talks with

    tablet

    makers and it might be included in products due late this year. He would not say how much it would add to the price. ately blow you away," Mr Rice said. But if it becomes pervasive, it will be something "you'll recognise when it's gone",
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    "It's not something that will immedi-

    applying a (non-shocking) electric field through the tablet screen, it can provide resistance to the movement of the user's finger, causing a smooth screen to sud-

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