Revolutionizing Prosthetics program achieves goal of restoring sensation A 28-year-old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade as a result of a spinal cord injury has become the first... Read more
Researchers are exploring new approaches to designing prosthetic hands capable of providing “sensory feedback.” Advances toward developing prostheses with a sense of touch are pr... Read more
Tactile feedback is nothing new It’s been used in telecommunications and in entertainment for decades, and it became a standard feature in the late 1990s in mobile phones and video gam... Read more
Imagine feeling a slimy jellyfish, a prickly cactus or map directions on your iPad mini Retina display, because that’s where tactile technology is headed. But you’ll need more than just an i... Read more
The use of ultrasonic vibrations is a new technique for delivering tactile sensations to the user. A system that allows users to experience multi-point haptic feedback above an interactive s... Read more
Our sense of touch is clearly more acute than many realize. A new study demystifies the “unknown sense” with first-ever measurements of human tactile perception. In a ground-breaking study,... Read more
After touch screens, researchers demonstrate electronic recording and replay of human touch Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in technology that co... Read more
With systems like the Kinect and Leap Motion, controlling a gadget with just the wave of a hand is starting to become much more commonplace. The one drawback to those gesture-based devices h... Read more
Details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated have been published by Microsoft’s research unit. The project combines an LCD flat panel screen with force s... Read more
New array measures vibrations across the skin, may help engineers design optimal, wearable tactile displays. In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you... Read more
Robots could become a lot more ‘sensitive’ thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading to better robotic platforms that could... Read more
“I think it’s very possible that in fact, you will consider this new thing as being part of your body” In a study recently published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems... Read more
Infrared signaling could create sense of touch in artificial limbs Rats can’t usually see infrared light, but they have “touched” it in a Duke University lab. The rats sens... Read more
UT Dallas researchers are extending the borders of virtual reality, going beyond virtual spaces in which people can see and hear each other to an environment that adds the sense of touch. Th... Read more
Flexible keys raised by fluid or gas on a touch screen surface applied to smart phones, tablets and other consumer electronics gadgets are expected to debut in 2013. Today you have to choose... Read more
