We all know the US Army has already experimented with vibrating clothing, and shortly it is usually our turn. The fashionable figure-hugger above is rigged with haptic actuators around the arms and torso, which respond when the wearer’s body ‘touches’ virtual objects created via Microsoft’s Kinect platform. The outfit’s designers on the University of Aachen spent quite a few hundred dollars on components, with the exception of the price of the Kinect, so this could well have commercial potential. Click the source link if you are really keen to look an idea video — even though it doesn’t include much beyond a German dude doing the Hey Macarena in his socks.
[Thanks, Jarod]
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