Artificial Skin Senses Touch

Artificial Skin Senses Touch

Nature has created some amazing systems, such as the sensitivity of human touch. We can feel texture, temperature, pressure, vibration, and more simply through our fingertips. The ability to gain all this information simply through touch is of enormous value in fields...
Thumbs Up for Wearable Interface [video]

Thumbs Up for Wearable Interface [video]

We’ve often discussed how important the user interface for wearable Health Tech devices is to their success, and how complex the problem is to come up with a good solution (such as here and here). Researchers at the famous MIT Media Labs have come up with a...
Prosthetic Hand Restores Sense of Touch [video]

Prosthetic Hand Restores Sense of Touch [video]

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a system that allows a patient to feel objects in his prosthetic hand. In partnership with the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dustin Pyler leads a seven-member team that is working...