Thinking a lot about the relationship between sex tech & haptics, in the wake of @shaptics. Had lots of discussions w/folks there about the firewall between the two, and how that firewall was used at this conf. Some of this comes from exp by attendees: sex tech is so titillating that it becomes low-hanging fruit when it gets discussed at a conf, sucking up all the air in the room.

Day 2 of @SHaptics kicks off with an overview of Smart Socks from @SensoriaInc, tracking gait for rehabilitation (no #HapticFeetback tho?). Privacy concerns & data sharing addressed early on. Text in slide showing a sock with fingers pinching it: 1) comfortable and washable, 2) three textile pressure sensors embedded into plantar area, 3) sensoria cute possessor, imu, rechargeable battery and Bluetooth

Brian Kappus (@ultraleap) on midair #haptics for automotive & I feel like I've been hearing about this for a while now. Found the midair stuff really underwhelming standing still concentrating bwithout the vibration of a car at 70 miles an hour. #SmartHaptics Requires a 256 transducer array mounted in the center console, that thing is getting sooo much coffee spilled on it

At next week's @SHaptics conf in Seattle, I'm joining the @HapticsClub podcast crew for a live-on-stage episode looking back at predictions made by their guests about the future of #haptics. To prep, I'm reviewing predictions, will share some thoughts in this thread (1/n). Tagging @EricVezzoli & @ChickTech in here to do the same, we've got 33 episodes to tear through between us, so buckle up. 1st on my list is @shorlydan on sex tech & wow I got tiny vacuum sucked into listening to this whole thing, fascinating (2/n). podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

OK, at this point, Immersion (@HapticsDev) has sued every digital tech company *except* FB so I guess this was kinda inevitable... businesswire.com/news/home/2022… It's kinda sad to see this company drop any pretense of actually trying to build/develop anything themselves...they basically exist to leverage their patent portfolio at this stage...

.@elizejackson's 'disability dongle' has been v helpful for me in thinking about haptics/accessibility tech. Expanded treatment here w/@FractalEcho & @alexhaagaard is brilliant & required reading for anyone promoting digital 'fixes' for disability.
blog.castac.org/2022/04/disabi… And as a bonus: one of their exs in the piece is foot haptics/haptic feetback/haptic shoes, consistently pushed as navigational aids for blind and low-vision people, despite their repeated failures to provide practical advantages over canes.