The advance may help users feel a greater sense of human connection through touch

The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thermistor and OLED? I mean you could. But I had a spoon from a box of Lucky Charms in the 90s that tells me there’s a cheaper way.