Re: tactile output?

This is the mail sent on Sunday morning. It is in my Sent folder, but has not shown up yet in my mailbox, although today's mail has, and also Suresh's reply. If any listmember has seen it though, please do let me know privately, so I can take it up with Yahoo. 
 
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> From: Vickram Crishna <v1clist-/[email protected]>
>To: "india-gii@india-gii org" <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Sunday, 1 September 2013, 7:59
>Subject: Re: [india-gii] tactile output?
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>http://phys.org/news/2013-08-gel-based-audio-speaker-capabilities-ionic.html
>This is yet another, just emerging, tactile output material that could completely change the design approach to wearable computing for everyone, but particularly essentially for persons with multiple physical challenges – vision, hearing, speaking – in any or all combinations.
>A transparent gel speaker (if engineered for skin sensitivity) could be worn to produce a broad pattern of tactile inputs, but could also be used to translate specific inputs into audible output. I am particularly reminded of a device used by someone I know who lost her larynx due to cancer. This device is a small cylinder which is pressed against the throat, and converts throat muscle movements into audible sound – not very loud, and a bit mechanical, but enormously better than nothing. As a learning tool, for a child locked out of early learning due to multiple problems, this could be a game changer, providing the child feedback through the skin, and converting the child's thoughts into audible speech.
>The possibilities are incredibly exciting.
>Vickram
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> From:  Vickram Crishna <v1clist-/[email protected]>; 
>To:  India-gii <[email protected]>; 
>Subject:  Re: [india-gii] tactile output? 
>Sent:  Wed, Aug 28, 2013 2:23:38 PM 
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>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=4024
>This also looks promising, if adapted to conveying communication via targeted puffs of air: for example, to different parts of the face and hands whilst sitting in front of the 'screen'. Multiple puffs could quickly convey complex characters or concepts. Braille or Braille-like keys could handle input.
>Or some other paradigm for input, other than characters.
>Vickram
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> From:  Arun Mehta <[email protected]>; 
>To:  [email protected] <[email protected]>; 
>Subject:  [india-gii] tactile output? 
>Sent:  Thu, Aug 22, 2013 5:36:49 AM 
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>please see, for instance,
>http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mobile-devices-change-shape-on-demand-gizmos-sriram-subramanian-india-born-technologist-gaming-console/1/268411.html
>cited below.
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>I am trying to develop technology for persons who are both, deaf and
>blind, and this seems promising. Does anyone know  Sriram Subramanian
>of the U of Bristol? Or anyone else working in the area of tactile
>output -- shape changing membranes and the like.
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>warmly,
>Arun Mehta
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>NRI technologist unveils world's first mobile phone that can change
>shape on demand
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>A shape-changing mobile device may sound like a gizmo straight out of
>Harry Potter's collection, but
 thanks to intermingling
 cutting edge
>technologies, it may soon be a reality.
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>A team led by India-born technologist Sriram Subramanian on Monday
>unveiled the world's first mobile phone that can change shape on
>demand.
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>It can take the shape of a gaming console by curling two opposite
>edges or it can look like an ATM keypad.
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>"We are introducing the term 'shape resolution', which adds to the
>existing definitions of screen and touch resolution," Subramanian,
>professor of computer science at the University of Bristol, said at a
>conference on humancomputer interface in Paris.
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>In a video, the prototype device developed by Subramanian and his
>students, including Abhijit Karnik, can be seen taking different
>shapes. The flexible device - named Morphee - adapts a new shape on
>its own to the context of the use in order to offer better
 user
>experience.
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