"Forget the kinder, gentler approch to vibrotactilism — this phone wants to smack you around! The in-development Samsung headset (available end of March) enables you to rough up your friends via SMS by sending tickles and slaps along with your text messages. Using a technology called haptics — the creation of texture and touch via artificial stimuli — these devices work much the way your PS2 or Xbox controller gives force-feedback when it vibrates based on the physical context of the game. It's also a hopped up version of the vibrate setting on your cellphone. What we want to know is, can we set an alarm to auto-trigger this feature and get a rude awakening every morning?" [via engadget]

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