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Health Artificial Feelings
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:29 AM
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Scientists have moved closer to enabling amputees with artificial limbs to feel what they are touching. The first bionic hand that will allow the wearer to experience touch again will enter trials later this year, thanks to the work of scientists at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and their partners at Project TIME (Transverse Intrafaciscular Multichannel Electrode System) — a program focused on the treatment of phantom limb pain.
In our generation, we may see something like this solution to this problem...
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Charles,
It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, that problem was only solved by throwing an old white dude down into a reactor core.
It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, that problem was only solved by throwing an old white dude down into a reactor core.
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