Blog on Haptics – Boréas Technologies

Jan 29, 2020

Last Decade Haptics in Automotive: New Haptic HMI in Seats, Pedals and Touchscreens

Just like the mobile device and personal computer industries, the automotive market saw the touchscreen adoption rate meteoric rise in the last ten years. Almost all new vehicles now come with infotainment using touchscreen as their main human-machine interface (HMI)....

Jan 15, 2020

Last Decade Haptics in Mobile: ERM to LRA and the Taptic Engine

The last decade (2010-2019) saw many innovations reaching the market in the mobile device industry. Phones went from devices with buttons to touchscreens and watches went from miniature clocks to full-fledged wearable computers with body sensors. Mobile devices screen technologies...

Jan 07, 2020

Haptic Technologies Will Play a Predominant Role in Autonomous Car HMI

We talked a lot about how haptic technologies can improve safety in the automotive industry. Haptics can improve the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) user experience of touchscreen infotainment systems and also the driver’s awareness with various types of warnings and alerts....

Dec 16, 2019

The Best Car HMI Input Device: Studies Show Touchscreen With Haptics

Touchscreens are in the middle of a security debate in the automotive industry. Some experts and journalists love them and would like to see all the knobs gone. Some simply hates car touchscreens and would prefer to keep mechanical buttons...

Nov 29, 2019

The Tactile Internet – How 5G Will Power Future Haptic Applications

Internet is now in everything. It’s even used in many applications that weren’t an obvious fit a couple years ago: speakers, televisions, home appliances, cars, industrial machinery, etc. This phenomenon is called the Internet of Things (IoT). We covered this...