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Neurotechnology Provides Near-Natural Sense of Touch

Neurotechnology Provides Near-Natural Sense of Touch

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

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Prosthetic Hands with a Sense of Touch? Breakthroughs in Providing ‘Sensory Feedback’ from Artificial Limbs

Prosthetic Hands with a Sense of Touch? Breakthroughs in Providing 'Sensory Feedback' from Artificial Limbs

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

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Haptic technology: The next frontier in video games, wearables, virtual reality, and mobile electronics

Haptic technology: The next frontier in video games, wearables, virtual reality, and mobile electronics

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

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Blind lead the way in brave new world of tactile technology

Blind lead the way in brave new world of tactile technology

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

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UltraHaptics – it’s magic in the air

UltraHaptics – it’s magic in the air

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

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Potential for touch screens found at your fingertips

Potential for touch screens found at your fingertips

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

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Touch Goes Digital

Touch Goes Digital

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

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Disney’s Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

Disney's Aireal delivers precise tactile feedback out of thin air

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

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Microsoft develops 3D touchscreen with tactile feedback

Microsoft develops 3D touchscreen with tactile feedback

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

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Can you feel me now?

Can you feel me now?

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

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Perfect skin: more touchy-feely robots

Perfect skin: more touchy-feely robots

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

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Sense of Touch Reproduced Through Prosthetic Hand

Sense of Touch Reproduced Through Prosthetic Hand

“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

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Brain prostheses create a sense of touch

Brain prostheses create a sense of touch

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

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UT Dallas Project Pushes Boundaries of Virtual Reality

UT Dallas Project Pushes Boundaries of Virtual Reality

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

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New Deformable Surface to Give Smart Phone Touch Screens Raised Tactile Keyboards

New Deformable Surface to Give Smart Phone Touch Screens Raised Tactile Keyboards

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

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