While most people won’t understand the use in creating a pair of headphones for the deaf, designer Pierre-Antoine Bouzard hears a different tune. In his latest design, Shake-Up, special headphones are worn by the user who’s deaf. Different tones and vibrations are then emitted in an attempt to let the user “feel” the music. And by “feel the music,” Bouzard really must mean vibrations. I can’t help but wonder how this is any different than having a vibrator strapped to the side of Helen Keller’s head.

But hey, if it works and deaf people can get a chance to rock out, I’m all for Shake-Up. Let’s just see what ends up happening with this concept.

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The Novint Falcon is a force-feedback mouse that pushes against your hand and uses vibrations to simulate texture. Designed to allow for a total 3D gaming experience by simulating different textures that might be used in the game. We see it as kind of a vibrating console controller like we see in Playstation controllers and alike.

The Novint Falcon is described as having a revolutionary interface that will not only make the 3D touch possible, but will do so for a wide spread consumer use. This would be the first time something attempting to create a more real gaming texture could be used in everyday use. Though, a product like this would be geared specifically to gamers unless some form of software is added for other apps. What about a blogger Falcon? Huh, huh? — Andrew Dobrow

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More and more people are relying on their cellphones to get them out of bed in the morning. There are times where the volume on the cellphone just isn’t enough to pull you out of your slumber. This glass vessel amplifies the vibrations and directs the sound of the alarm directly into your ear hole.

Something like this should definitly be marketed. We have a feeling a lot of people would be interested. If not, they can just get themselves more of an extreme alarm clock. — Andrew Dobrow

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