[HN Gopher] New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to th...
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       New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-11-16 19:00 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | dmazin wrote:
       | After the Apple Watch came out, I wanted to build something like
       | this. Of course, an idea being an idea, I didn't.
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       | Anyway, my idea was this: one drunken night in Berkeley, a
       | neuroscience PhD told me that it was possible to put a patch of
       | electrodes on the back of a blind person. If a camera fed those
       | electrodes, the person would eventually learn to decode that into
       | something like sight.
       | 
       | That got me thinking about using a similar patch, except on your
       | arm (for convenience), except for audio, and for people who
       | _could_ hear. The idea was that it would amplify what you heard
       | and make you hear it better. We would quickly learn what the
       | signals from the patch mean. In time, maybe, the patch could be
       | used to deliver auditory information that was _not_ merely an
       | amplification of what the person heard.
       | 
       | I am not 100% sure but I think Meta has been building something
       | similar for a while. Their recent AR glasses showed off a wrist
       | device that could read signals, but I could swear they were also
       | looking into a device that could transmit signals to the skin.
        
       | zxilly wrote:
       | Come on, when can we use this for games?
        
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