From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 26000 invoked from network); 5 Dec 1998 19:41:11 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 1998 19:41:11 -0000 Received: from salyko.cube.net (salyko.cube.net [195.38.152.2]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA22526 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:36:40 -0500 Received: from goldfish(goldfish.cube.net[194.97.65.88]) (1643 bytes) by salyko.cube.net via smtpd with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:39:02 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Nov-23) Received: (qmail 5117 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 1998 19:33:06 -0000 MBOX-Line: From foo@bar Sat Dec 5 20:33:05 1998 Received: (qmail 5108 invoked by uid 7780); 5 Dec 1998 19:33:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:33:02 +0100 (CET) cc: info@aec.at Subject: Virtual touch device Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Hans Zoebelein To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Hi Blinuxers, there is an interesting virtual touch device available. This device lets you virtually touch objects which are in the range. This device could be an interesting tool to let users touch graphical user interfaces with their hands. It works through electric motors which generate physical resistance as soon as you reach a surface. Using an interface library (check out http://ds.dial.pipex.com/shallow/ ) it could be possible to implement this device under Linux. At the moment they seem to do developement under NT. But with source code available, it should be much easier done under Linux. Sorry to say that the site presenting the "virtual touch" device http://www.aec.at doesn't offer a single email address or a web link to the developers. (typical European mistreatment of web space :) This site belongs to the Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria. The only contact address I could find is . Enjoy! Hans -- blinux == http://www.hzo.cubenet.de/blinux/ ios++ == http://www.leb.net/hzo