Next-gen Game Controllers Tug At Thumb Tips

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Engineers at the University of Utah have designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices,but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions (http://scienceblog.com/52499/prototype-video-game-controllers-tug-at-thumb-tips/) to simulate various types of movement. 'We have developed feedback modes that enhance immersiveness and realism for gaming scenarios such as collision, recoil from a gun, the feeling of being pushed by ocean waves or crawling prone in a first-person shooter game,' said the lead researcher on the project, adding he hoped the technology would be adopted in the next generation of gaming consoles."

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/2129201/next-gen-game-controllers-tug-at-thumb-tips