She said the team wants textures and tactile sensations to feel real. Tan added that the device remains comfortable for long ...

Engineers from Northwestern University have developed a flexible device you can wear on your fingertip like a Band-Aid to ...

A set of experiments reveals that humans' just be perceiving the minute displacements caused in sand can detect an object ...

Engineers have created VoxeLite, the first wearable haptic device capable of matching the sensitivity of the human fingertip.

A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a ...

Because of different types of sensory nerve endings in our fingertips, we are amazingly good at sensing hidden objects in ...

January 18, 2007 Relevant feedback from an intelligent device is very important to the feel of that device, how you relate to it and how efficiently you use it. Immersion Corporation is the company ...

Rumors of flexible displays coming out from LG and Samsung are beginning to shape what may be the future of mobile, and Apple is hoping to also capitalize on flexible display technology on its iPhone ...

We’ve all heard it a thousand times – they don’t make ’em like they used to. Sometimes, that’s for good reason, but there is a certain build quality to electronics of the mid-20th century that is hard ...

A collaborative research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has developed a wearable tactile rendering system, which can mimic the sensation of touch with high spatial resolution and ...

In 2007, Tactile Medical announced it had raised $11.8 million to bring an at-home lymphedema-care product to market. It was the Flexitouch, an electronically charged wearable garment to treat the ...