{"id":113101,"date":"2020-09-16T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/new-glove-like-device-mimics-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2020-09-16T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:52:09","slug":"new-glove-like-device-mimics-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/new-glove-like-device-mimics-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"New glove-like device mimics sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-glove-like-device-mimics-sense-of-touch3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if you could touch a loved one during a video call\u2014particularly in today\u2019s social distancing era of COVID-19\u2014or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game?<\/p>\n<p>Pending user tests and funding to commercialize the new technology, these ideas could become reality in a couple of years after UNSW Sydney engineers developed a new haptic <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> which recreates the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sense+of+touch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sense of touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Haptic technology mimics the experience of touch by stimulating localized areas of the skin in ways that are similar to what is felt in the real world, through force, vibration or motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could touch a loved one during a video call\u2014particularly in today\u2019s social distancing era of COVID-19\u2014or pick up and handle a virtual tool in a video game? Pending user tests and funding to commercialize the new technology, these ideas could become reality in a couple of years after UNSW Sydney engineers developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}