The year is 1997, and it’s around Christmas. You open your gifts to find a new accessory for your Nintendo 64. It’s called a Rumble Pak, a removable device that plugs into the back of your controller.

Did you feel that? The vibration of a new notification, that rumble of that movie explosion, the kickback while closing out that tense battle royal match? Those are all powered by the haptics included ...

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Adding haptic feedback to displays in cars and trucks lets designers add “feel and texture” to buttons, as well as sliders to touchscreen elements, making it safer for drivers when interacting with ...

Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today’s VR controllers there’s lots of other immersive haptic tech ...

The haptics bring satisfying feedback to everyday tasks, if you’re willing to go all-in on its app. The haptics bring satisfying feedback to everyday tasks, if you’re willing to go all-in on its app.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Drexel universities say that adding haptics—an artificial sense of touch—to upper limb prostheses reduces the mental effort required to operate the device, bringing ...