Immersion is the company behind haptic, or touch feedback, technology for some videogame consoles and cellphones.
At the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, Immersion demoed its TouchSense for touchscreen keyboards and Immersive Messaging.
Oh dear, I always forget that the camera is turned on 24/7 these days, knows all and sees all and then sticks it on YouTube.
Like this moment for me that came during a speech I gave last week at the Software & Information Industry Association’s NetGain conference in San Francisco, which was titled, “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Tweet: What Interactivity Really Means for Real Businesses.”
In 140 words or fewer, I insult Amazon’s Kindle, Apple and even myself for being a Steve Jobs fanboy.
BoomTown is not proud of the problem.
Not at all.
But, after hearing the same situation described over and over again from many other parents like me, I am also not alone.
As it turns out, our almost-seven-year-old son, Louie, has morphed into an iJacker.
That would be of my iPhone and the many, many, many games apps to be played on it–from Crazy Penguin Catapult to Finger Sprint to Super Monkey Ball.
And, good lord, how did a “Race to Witch Mountain” app get on there?
So, I don’t need any stats to tell me that the iPhone, and the iPod touch too, have turned into gaming devices of great impact.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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