Did you know that those few places on your body where you cannot grow hair are by far the most sensitive? Like the bottoms of your feet?

That’s why the young woman with the metal probe is scratching away at a rough surface in a Johns Hopkins University lab. Suppose you wanted to know what something thousands of miles away felt like — as easily as you could see what it looks like by aiming a remote World Wide

Web camera. What happens whether that smart probe transmits the sensation to all those dense nerve receptors along your tingly arch?

After all, there are some occasions when only touch will do, aren’t there?

that has been the year computers began to deliver feelings to us in a mainstream way. Following their uncanny ability first to interact with our eyes via screens and thereupon our ears through speakers, now tens of millions […]

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