After getting some mini massagers for the fair sex from a discount sale fair, I started thinking about vibration/haptic motor projects again! I’m in the middle of a lot of projects based on small ...

Cover up your webcam, disable microphone access and put on your tinfoil hat — but it won’t make any difference, because the Illuminati can get at you through your phone’s vibration motor now. Well, ...

Nidec is claiming it has developed a series of linear vibration motors with the smallest-class diameters in the world. Smartphones and smartwatches are sometimes equipped with a vibration motor to ...

According to OnePlus, its upcoming flagship smartphone will be the world’s first to house a bionic vibration sensor motor. Made by AAC Technologies and OnePlus, the new vibration hardware will be the ...

Besides buzzing to alert you to calls, texts, and alarms, a phone's vibration motor can also function as a solid speech sensor, researchers have demonstrated. And that means one more potential method ...

Providing discrete notification of incoming calls or scheduled events to cell phone users, the MLX90283 vibration-motor driver IC is said to add unique capabilities in packaging and power efficiency.

Do you feel nostalgia for a childhood novelty toy that had potential but ultimately fell short of its promise? Do you now have the skills to go make a better version of that toy to satisfy your ...

Update: These are likely an iPhone 5 clone (with better vibrating motor). Note the smaller 1150 mAh battery and the (d’oh) SD card slot. The images above allegedly show a Foxconn assembly line in ...