Pocket-Lint: Several things have become synonymous with smartphones: weather and stocks. With stock markets looking so depressing, perhaps your best use of time is sitting and watching the weather around the world.
Starting today, you’ll be able to receive Yahoo’s news headlines and weather reports and even take care of a virtual pet monkey — all through Facebook Messenger.
What if the apps on your phone knew where you were, what you were doing, what's nearby, and even what the weather was like outside, and then combined this..
It uses electrical stimulation to imitate anything from an explosion to in-game weather.
Cheesy comparisons to Lawnmower Man aside, this is the start of full haptics. Haptics are going to be evolving so fast this year, VR is pushing the development from all sides very hard.