Titan Haptic's magnetic actuators.
Titan Haptic's magnetic actuators.
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Nanoport launches Titan Haptics with magnetic touch feedback

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nanoport is launching its Titan Haptics division today as part of its move to create haptics, or touch feedback, for virtual buttons in smartphones.

Titan Haptics uses the technology created by the Toronto-based Nanoport, which uses a kind of magnet technology, dubbed Linear Magnetic Ram (LMR), to make tiny little motors that can produce the sensation of touch feedback with a smartphone surface, such as the side of a phone. You press the side, triggering the LMR, and it feels like you’re pressing a physical button.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.