Researchers show off flexible, band-aid-sized tactile display
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jun 10th 2008 11:32AM
posted Jun 10th 2008 11:32AM
We've seen tactile displays of all shapes and sizes, but none quite like this latest creation from a group of researchers at Korea's Sungkyunkwan University and the University of Nevada, which promises to be at your disposal whenever you need it. That's possible thanks to the electroactive polymer material the display is based on, which consists of eight layers of tiny actuator films that have been sprayed with electrodes in a specific pattern, allowing the skin to be stimulated without any additional electromechanical transmission. In addition to making it possible to wrap the display around your finger like a band-aid, that also makes the system extremely power efficient and, apparently, cost effective and easy to manufacture. As with other tactile displays, the researchers say this one could be especially useful as a braille display for the blind, although they don't see any shortage of other potential applications, with them foreseeing it being used in everything from virtual keyboards to tele-surgical gloves.
For the blind, maybe create scrollable banner text that they could read without moving their fingers? I'm not sure if that would be better or not, but perhaps someone blind could comment on the usefulness of this technology.
For virtual reality pervs, it could send messages like "THIS IS WHAT BOOBIES FEEL LIKE (.)(.)"
allowing the skin to be stimulated without any additional electromechanical transmission.
I can't imagine what this will do for pornography.
the ability to wrap it around finger-like shapes could prove to be a boon to the industry
That's the very same thing I thought. I can only imagine what the pervs will do with this sort of tech.
this is really is cool, (unlike the phone reviews lately, if ya know what I mean ;)
I can see so many uses for this my mind just spins with delight and solutions!
Very cool
Imagine covering a certain phone with it! (that was mean, I know :P)
Man, that's pretty freaky. I mean, watching this stuff update and the fluid skitter accross the surface must be really odd.
Is this based on ferrofluids?
Looks like all those developers will now be able to give BACK to the pr0n industry!
I just hope the first prototype is electrically isolated... =D
So... I'm not the only one who thought of pronnish applications. That's... um.. good, I guess. Right?
It's normal and expected if you are freshly entering puberty, don't worry about it.
boobies (.)(.) FTW
hahaha you said boobies!
( o )( o )
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( Y )
@stardash
L2format!
I meant
.( o )( o )
...)......(
..(...Y...)
u forgot the nose
awesome. Braille book-on-(finger)-tip
Does anyone else remember the Fu-Fme from a few years back, This sort of reminds me of that.