Powercursor allows you to simulate haptic feedback creating a tactile experience in GUIs.
Simluate pressure, stickiness and roughness in your GUIs!
There is a lot of cool work being done with wearable computers delivering real work haptic experiences. Check out http://www.cutecircuit.com. You give your partner a hug whilst they are wearing the shirt, the shirt remembers the pressure of the hug, then when you are away on business your partner can press a button and recreate the hug!
Philips have created a shirt which promises to deliver “emotional immersion“; shivers up the spine and muscle contraction.
Here’s an interface made of mud!
“By sloshing, squishing, pulling, punching, etc, in a tub of mud (yes, wet dirt), users control games, simulators, and expressive tools; interacting with a computer in a new, completely organic, way. Born out of a motivation to close the gap between our bodies and the digital world, the Mud Tub frees the traditional computer interaction model of it’s rigidity, allowing humans to use their highly developed sense of touch, and creative thinking skills in a more natural way.”
http://tomgerhardt.com/mudtub/
This would be awesome at a music festival. Glastonbury is ridiculously muddy anyway…