Interactive vibrator for multimedia

DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to an embodiment of the invention, a vibrator for applying soothing and stimulating vibrations to a human body includes a vibrating device, a detector to detect electronic signals sent between a computer and an input/output device, and a circuit which drives the vibrating device in response to characteristics of said electronic signals.
The vibrator is suitably positioned against a portion of the user's body, for example the feet or neck, and thereby provides soothing vibration action while the user is operating the computer.
Interactive vibrators according to an aspect of the present invention overcome the constraints of requiring specialized hardware and software to the computer system.
This is done by the sensing signal created by users interactive moves at input devices such as a joystick, X and Y coordinate move, rate of move change, trigger buttons.
The sensed signal is then processed to generate appropriate physical vibrating feedback to the user at various parts of the body.
Physical vibrating motions may be a soothing or vigorous pulsating.
The high G force may be caused by rapid acceleration and deceleration or quick turn right and left vehicle movement and actions.
It can add pulsating patterns caused by firing of guns.
By adding physical interactive feedback it allows environmentally realistic simulation to the user.
Accordingly, it is therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved personal vibrator with a non-constant and non-repeating action to soothe while maintaining the user's alertness.
It is another object of the invention to provide an improved vibrator which adapts to a computer user's actions to provide an interactive stimulus.
It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved vibrator with an interactive stimulus without requiring the use of software installed on the user's computer.
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved vibrator with an interactive stimulus which does not require equipment specialized to each type of computer