Novint Falcon Enables Players to Feel Realistic Virtual Environments
Manhattan
Scientifics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MHTX)
announced today that its portfolio company, Novint
Technologies Inc., (OTCBB:NVNT) has concluded a cooperative
partnership with Valve
Corporation, a leading video game entertainment software company.
Using Novint’s proprietary Falcon controller, players are now able to
feel realistic weapon recoil, enemy attacks and vehicle movements as
well as the texture of objects, weight, even stickiness and
slipperiness. Many industry experts believe the Falcon to be the “next
big thing” in computing and video games. The technology was originally
developed by Sandia National Laboratories and has been licensed
exclusively to Novint.
Manhattan Scientifics currently owns 1,075,648 shares of Novint common
stock or approximately 3% of Novint’s outstanding shares. Manhattan
Scientifics also owns exclusive licenses and sublicenses to certain
haptics Internet applications acquired from Novint.
Valve corporation’s 20 million registered Steam platform users were
notified of its compatibility with the Novint Falcon for its Orange
Box compilation including Half-Life 2, Portal
and Team Fortress 2. Valve plans to soon release additional
Falcon support for its leading games.
Manhattan Scientifics’ founder and former Chairman Marvin Maslow, who is
a director of Novint and Manhattan Scientifics, said, “Playing computer
games with the Novint Falcon is mind-blowing and games are only the
beginning of a new era in computer science for this technology. The
notion of touching and feeling anything on your computer screen is
almost incomprehensible until one tries it. Novint’s unique patented
hardware and software will now be available to computer users worldwide.
We’ll be able to touch each other, shake hands or hug grandkids from
thousands of miles away. The Novint development represents a new
dimension as computer uses expand to greater realism and usefulness.”
About Manhattan Scientifics
Manhattan
Scientifics, Inc. is located in New Mexico, New York, and Montreal.
It is developing and plans to acquire technologies in a variety of
environmentally friendly energy and other people-friendly industries.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions
and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to
differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made
and are not guarantees of future performance. We undertake no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.
Executive Contact:
Manny
Tsoupanarias, CEO, 918-919-0370
mtsoupanarias@manhattan-scientifics.com
or
For
Investor Relations:
Marvin Maslow, Chairman Emeritus, 917-923-3300
marvin@marvinmaslow.com
