Haptic feedback was promised as the bridge between the UI flexibility of a touchscreen and the ease of use of buttons, but it’s actually turned out to be of mixed effectiveness. One company hoping to change that is Senseg, who have developed a new type of solid-state haptic feedback system that uses an electrical field to stimulate the receptors in the fingertip that would normally feel vibration. The Senseg technology breaks down the display into an array of “tixels”, each of which can be individually controlled and made to send out a different effect.

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