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# Two Touching New Ways to Interact with Gadgets
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/haptic-technology/
- Published: 2012-02-14T03:45:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:58.000Z
- Description: LOS ANGELES — We celebrate the innovations of touch screens, which have made computing that much more haptic. But when it comes to interacting with our devices, the use of touch remains remarkably, well, untapped.
- Author: AX Mina
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

LOS ANGELES — We celebrate the innovations of touch screens, which have made computing that much more haptic. But when it comes to interacting with our devices, the use of touch remains remarkably, well, untapped.

Enter [Feel Me](http://www.cs.uic.edu/%7Emtriveri/Marco%5FTriverio/Feel%5Fme%5Fapp.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), an upcoming app developed by Copenhagen-based [Marco Triverio](http://portfolio.marcotriverio.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com). Seeking a way to enhance how he socialize, he developed an interface that allows you to tap on your screen. On their phone, your friend sees a dot exactly where your finger is. If he or she touches it, the dot lights up and the phone vibrates, indicating a connection.

“Depending on the context,” [he notes in his explanation video](http://vimeo.com/33500689?ref=hyperallergic.com), beta testers “have used it as a soft, gentle connection or as a playful link with the person on the other side.”

And then there’s the Cryoscope, developed by LA’s own[ Robb Godshaw](http://robb.cc/?ref=hyperallergic.com), who also works on [Syynlabs](http://syynlabs.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (the folks who brought us the amazing OK Go Rube Goldberg machine [video](http://syynlabs.com/ok-go?ref=hyperallergic.com)). Touching on the notion that we *feel* weather rather than understand as abstract data points, he created a box that actually heats up and cools down.

Big whoop, right? You can just reach your hand out the window. But in a cubicle-filled world, the device makes some sense. It makes even more sense for travelers. After just a month in Los Angeles, I’ve forgotten what anything below 60°F (16°C) feels like. With a range of 0°F to 100°F (-18°C to 38°C), Cryoscope makes that brisk air feel in a faraway city that much more real.