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The technology of touch

Katherine Kuchenbecker · TED

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About

As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel -- the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the field of haptics, and how it could change everything from the way we shop online to how dentists learn the telltale feel of a cavity.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDYouth 2012
Speaker
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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