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Northwestern University Researchers Achieve “Human Resolution”
Courtesy of Northwestern University
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a way for people to feel the real-life textures — like denim or velvet — of images on a screen.
Why It Hits: Being able to feel digital objects is something straight out of a sci-fi movie… and it has some incredible real-world applications across various fields. That could be a game changer for e-commerce, accessibility, and even entertainment.
Behind The Textures: Our fingertips are getting an upgrade.
The researchers built a wearable “made from flexible, paper-thin latex” that is “embedded with tiny nodes that push into the skin in a precise way.”
Those nodes “can move up to 800 times per second” to recreate the sensation of touching textures.
The wearable is so thin and lightweight (it weighs less than a gram) that it’s “haptically transparent,” meaning it doesn’t hinder your finger from still feeling things IRL.
Last Touch: Publishing their study in Science Advances, the researchers are the first to successfully develop “human resolution” — what Fast Company describes as the ability to “accurately match the complex way a human fingertip senses the world.” In fact, the study found that users could “identify fabrics like corduroy or leather with 81% accuracy.”
In other words, now you can check how soft that shirt really is before you order it.
The Future: With sight and sound mastered, touch may now be the hottest touchpoint in digital marketing.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.