{"id":83322,"date":"2018-10-05T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/this-robotic-finger-attachment-for-your-smartphone-will-gently-caress-your-hand"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:23","slug":"this-robotic-finger-attachment-for-your-smartphone-will-gently-caress-your-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/this-robotic-finger-attachment-for-your-smartphone-will-gently-caress-your-hand","title":{"rendered":"This robotic finger attachment for your smartphone will gently caress your hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-robotic-finger-attachment-for-your-smartphone-will-gently-caress-your-hand.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our smartphones are cold, passive devices that usually can\u2019t move autonomously unless they\u2019re falling onto our faces while we\u2019re looking at them in bed. A research team in France is exploring ways to change that by giving our smartphones the ability to interact with us more (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2181564-smartphone-with-a-finger-crawls-across-the-table-to-stroke-your-wrist\/\">via <em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>). MobiLimb is a robotic finger attachment that plugs in through a smartphone\u2019s Micro USB port, moves using five servo motors, and is powered by an Arduino microcontroller. It can tap the user\u2019s hand in response to phone notifications, be used as a joystick controller, or, with the addition of a little fuzzy sheath accessory, it can turn into a cat tail.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/tldr\/2018\/10\/5\/17940708\/mobilimb-robotic-finger-attachment-smartphone\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/platform\/amp\/tldr\/2018\/10\/5\/1794070...smartphone<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our smartphones are cold, passive devices that usually can\u2019t move autonomously unless they\u2019re falling onto our faces while we\u2019re looking at them in bed. A research team in France is exploring ways to change that by giving our smartphones the ability to interact with us more (via New Scientist). MobiLimb is a robotic finger attachment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83322","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83322\/revisions\/83401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}