Once I was sitting at the Apple IIgs in my high-school’s computer lab using some software with headphones plugged into the back of the computer. I went to wipe away the dust on the screen and got a static shock right in my ear. It was not pleasant.
It used to be nice to pass the back of my arm over screens, and feel the little hairs in my skin react. Do it slowly and with a blindfold on and it can be pretty intense :-)
I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.
Fake. Windows 95 devs couldn’t have guessed I’d be seeing this on an OLED screen. The screens they targeted tingled when touched. /s
Tingle me baby
Once I was sitting at the Apple IIgs in my high-school’s computer lab using some software with headphones plugged into the back of the computer. I went to wipe away the dust on the screen and got a static shock right in my ear. It was not pleasant.
It used to be nice to pass the back of my arm over screens, and feel the little hairs in my skin react. Do it slowly and with a blindfold on and it can be pretty intense :-)
I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.
No, it was far too vague for that … but not an angle I’d ever thought about!