{"id":132,"date":"2009-05-01T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T23:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-05-01T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T23:41:40","slug":"dynamically-changeable-physical-buttons-on-a-visual-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever tried controlling an iPod touch or iPhone in a car dock, you probably are aware of the benefits of tactile feedback provided by mechanical controls &#8211; something that&#8217;s lacking with touchscreens.  Hence this research into <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/providing_dynamically_changeable_physical_buttons_on_a_visual_display.html\">dynamic physical controls which double as a multi-touch display<\/a> looks <i>really<\/i> interesting.<\/p>\n<p>While this programmable tactile control technology looks really cool, it seems it would be too bulky for small personal devices.  I never understood why the touch iPods didn&#8217;t include gestures to control playback in car situations, that would be supremely useful.  <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Smai_Z_galE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Smai_Z_galE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\">infosthetics.com<\/a>, which is a great blog btw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever tried controlling an iPod touch or iPhone in a car dock, you probably are aware of the benefits of tactile feedback provided by mechanical controls &#8211; something that&#8217;s lacking with touchscreens. Hence this research into dynamic physical controls which double as a multi-touch display looks really interesting. While this programmable tactile control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,32,33],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-design","tag-display","tag-multitouch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}