While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM (<a href="http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/" rel="nofollow">http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/</a>), it's still bound to a surface, and effectively just a 2D monochrome image presented with pressure instead of light.<p>What I want to see is a haptic method that can represent complex topologies, and at the moment, it looks like that's still gloves (although this will certainly be useful for quick/casual interactions, as well as its applications in the medical field as michaeljansen notes).