All In One Haptic Phone
Eat your heart out multi-touchscreen iPhone. The Haptic phone not only sports the cool touchiness, but also the very cool hapticness. The entire front and back of the phone is a touchscreen. However the screen not only shows a graphic UI, it also sports a PUI (physical user interface). The surface area can raise to mimic all kinds of buttons.
Designer: Lukas Koh
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I hope this item isn’t criticized from another designer..
It’s good idea that you point out tactile feeling.
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Impossible to make. Some of these design exercises are neat, but I find they’re only interesting if they have a basis in reality OR are non-obvious and bring an innovative idea to the table. I would place say this is neither. It just makes me think, “Duh”
Not necessarily impossible to make, maybe not quite as “nice” as the picture, but I’d bet it could be done. It’d have to be mechanical though, as in little nubs under a slightly pliable skin rise and are assigned a number or letter or lower to allow a different configuration to rise and dimple the surface slightly.
Does it look great? honestly, there is some terrible product design out there, and this doesn’t look any better. I thought the point of designing hypothetical products was to make them look better than things you can actually buy - this looks like an awkward, beefy iPhone prototype.
I would hazard a guess it could be done with an electro or magneto viscous fluid and a thin touch-sensitive layer underneath that could map area’s pressed to various functions. The EV Fluid would perhaps need to be able to change volume possibly by magnetically attracting more fluid into the area of where the buttons will be, which would then expand into an area of plastic that is more elastic forming buttons before it finally became more viscous to the point of hardening. The button area’s would be designated by small coils that would be powered creating small electromagnets, that way it would be localized and only the button areas would become hard.
I was thinking of something along those lines. We’ve all seen the awesomeness that ferrofluids can perform.
However, i was thinking of something along the lines of pseudo-tactile buttons that merely give you the impression of having pushed a button… or something. some sort of electrical nerve trick thing. Your idea is much more plausible.
Actually, I think you were thinking along the right lines. I’ve actually played with Immersion’s “tactile touchscreen” at my job, and they do a pretty decent job of simulating the sensation of a button press. What was actually going on was that the entire screen was being moved minutely - the whole setup required large motors behind the screen and would currently be impractical for a cell phone, but I can see it eventually making its way. It wouldn’t work with multi-touch though, which may be the directions all touchscreens are headed.
what kinda university do you go to to learn this stuff
I am studying of interaction design.
It’s nice to see your concept of “haptic”.
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Actually, this technology has already been patented.
Easy to think but hard to make.
What’s the point?
can’t agree more.
simple thinking is best !
But we don’t know when it will be released.
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好概念！好产品
Can’t believe someone else had this idea. I’ve been thinking about this pretty much since the iphone came out and ways in which to do it. I think it is very possible and could revolutionize user/computer interaction. Think about the possibilities for the BLIND (braille fonts)!