Originally posted on Gigaom:
What if apps didn't need a display to send you messages? Or what if you could talk to someone across the room without raising your voice? French wearable startup Novitact wants to solve these problems with its Feeltact bracelet, which the company showed off at CES in Las Vegas this week.
Feeltact is a bracelet that includes four buttons to send and respond to information, as well as multiple small cells that are capable of vibrating in a variety of patterns. The bracelet is connected to your phone via Bluetooth LE, and a dedicated app can be used to define what different patterns of vibrations mean.
Novitact CEO Thibaud Severeni demonstrated the bracelet to me Thursday at CES by using the company's own mobile app, which is capable of translating pre-determined alerts and text messages into vibration patterns, but the company also wants to release an SDK to let third-party...
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