{"id":223137,"date":"2025-10-09T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-haptic-system-lets-soft-objects-respond-to-taps-squeezes-and-twists"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:22:25","slug":"new-haptic-system-lets-soft-objects-respond-to-taps-squeezes-and-twists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-haptic-system-lets-soft-objects-respond-to-taps-squeezes-and-twists","title":{"rendered":"New haptic system lets soft objects respond to taps, squeezes and twists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-haptic-system-lets-soft-objects-respond-to-taps-squeezes-and-twists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath.<\/p>\n<p>Using this system, a user can tap, twist or pinch a soft object\u2014such as a cushion, an item of clothing or a pliable computer mouse\u2014and the object will respond in a meaningful way, for instance, by changing the TV channel, turning off a light or creating a digital sculpture on a screen.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, the object also provides <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/tactile+feedback\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tactile feedback<\/a> (such as a soft click or vibration) to confirm the action, while maintaining its natural softness and flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath. Using this system, a user can tap, twist or pinch a soft object\u2014such as a cushion, an item of clothing or a pliable computer mouse\u2014and the object [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}