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Haptic: A Potential Solution
Hello, After watching Michael Abrash's OC2 keynote, my mind has been endlessly imagining solutions to these haptic problems both in the short and long term. I wanted to present these ideas in case ...
@Madaras - yes, I hope we get there. We'd have to stimulate the brain region, which g4c posted above, responsible for the body. But we'd have to be extremely precise in it.
I just came across something interesting today. Watching a TED talk on bionics, apparently a material does exist that fits the description of "hard touch". In this video at 7:08 we start to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsNZJTWw0w&t=7m8s
It goes from flexible to stiff as a board with an electric current. And it's apparently strong enough to be used for limb movement. That's just the type of strength needed to provide an anti-force to the force of our body for that haptic feedback.
I just came across something interesting today. Watching a TED talk on bionics, apparently a material does exist that fits the description of "hard touch". In this video at 7:08 we start to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsNZJTWw0w&t=7m8s
It goes from flexible to stiff as a board with an electric current. And it's apparently strong enough to be used for limb movement. That's just the type of strength needed to provide an anti-force to the force of our body for that haptic feedback.