Engineers from Northwestern University have developed a flexible device you can wear on your fingertip like a Band-Aid to feel the sensation of interacting with textured and patterned surfaces on a ...

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The first time a fingertip meets VoxeLite, the feeling is strangely familiar. The surface under your finger is flat and ...

Northwestern engineers have developed VoxeLite, a fingertip-thin, flexible haptic device that allows users to feel digital ...

Digital touch has lagged far behind sight and sound because current haptic devices can’t match the human fingertip’s spatial or temporal resolution. Researchers created VoxeLite, an ultra-thin ...

VoxeLite features an array of tiny, individually controlled nodes embedded into a paper-thin, stretchable sheet of latex. These soft nodes function like pixels of touch, each capable of pressing into ...

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Northwestern University engineers have developed the first haptic device that achieves “human resolution,” meaning it accurately matches the human fingertip's sensing abilities. Called VoxeLite, the ...

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Northwestern University engineers have developed the first haptic device that achieves "human resolution," meaning it accurately matches the sensing abilities of the human fingertip. Called VoxeLite, ...

Summary: Engineers have created VoxeLite, the first wearable haptic device capable of matching the sensitivity of the human fingertip. Built as a paper-thin, flexible bandage for the finger, it uses ...