The Communication Of The Future Is So Real You Can Touch It

Companies are starting to integrate haptic feedback into their technology. Welcome to the future you can reach out and touch.

Early one morning last year Hiroshi Ishii, associate director of the MIT Media Lab, placed his hand on one of two identical assemblies of wooden bars. I put my hand on the other, a few feet away. As he rolled his hand over the one assembly, I simultaneously felt his movements in the bars under my hands. The experiment, dubbed InTouch, translates my movements into a form of communication that typically requires us to share the same physical space. But we're not; it just feels as if we are.

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