Tech Thursdays-New glove

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Haptic technology mimics the experience of touch by stimulating areas of the skin in ways felt in the real world, through vibration or motion. The human hand has a high density of tactile receptors and is a challenging area to encode information through haptic stimulation.

The three-way directional skin stretch device built into the fingertips of the wearable haptic glove is like wearing a second skin—it's soft, stretchable and mimics the sense of touch. The technology is scalable and can be integrated for use in telehealth, medical devices, surgical robots, and virtual reality.

Visual or auditory cues are easy to replicate, but haptic cues are challenging to reproduce. It’s almost impossible to enable a user to feel something happening in a computer or smartphone using a haptic interface. Haptic feedback with vibration becomes less sensitive when used continuously or when users are in motion, leading to desensitization and impaired device functionality.

Would I try this? Yes, I think is incredible since they some people out in the world that lost the sense of touch; now they have a way to have some feeling back. It may not be the same but technology is constantly improving and I think one day this will be improved to the point that you can't tell the difference.