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If your reading this, you are not offended by this joke.]]>Feb 9th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Mar 17th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/
maybe you get a twinge everytime you hear motown hits, i know i do already]]>Feb 9th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/
I remember by the end of the experiment the guy could find tell which direction without the belt.

I always wanted to do it because I already have an awesome sense of direction and would love to boost it even more. ]]>Feb 9th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 11th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/
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But there really is something to this; it's a great way to communicate directions without the need for a visual or audible cue. There's tons of legitimate applications for this technology.

Could lend a whole new meaning to the phrase "I'm getting buzzed..."]]>Feb 9th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/
Ugh... At times like that I feel like my age is my shoe size.

Honestly - is that thing attached to his belt with a zip strip!? ]]>Feb 9th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/Feb 9th 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/haptic-compass-gives-you-sense-of-direction-not-style/there's a press release in german from january 2006
http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/111266/
and for the english readers, there's more info here
http://feelspace.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/index.html
so either this guy reinvented the wheel, or he just copied the student's ideas without even mentioning them...
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Not to be a homophobe or anything.. but the bulging crotch shot and all the erection references are making me a little uncomfortable.]]>Feb 10th 2009 9:16AM