Commentary

Boffins at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have come up with a novel way for mobile phone users to interact with their phone. The Shoogle interface [apparently named after a Scots-English word for shake, although the dictionary reckons it’s more likely to be ‘shoggle’], uses a “vibrotactile display and realistic impact sonification” to tell users what’s ‘inside’ their phone.

byJames Middleton