Like satnav for a cyclists waist, the belt helps guide cyclists and has proven successful in early tests.
It uses vibrating actuators that indicate left, right, backward and forward turn directions, and even tickles the user with coded buzzes that tell them how far they have to go to their destination.
Developed by Haska Steltenpohl of the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the system aims to give cyclists a heads-up navigator, allowing them to keep their eyes on the road after they have chosen their destination on a GPS smartphone.
They simply set off and get directional nudges from the vibrators just before each turn, New Scientist reported.
To see if the vibrotactile navigation compared well with using a standard GPS map on a handlebar-mounted smartphone, 20
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