Rice University: Smart Fabrics' Informed Touch Can Tell You Where to Go
August 30, 2023
August 30, 2023
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- Rice University issued the following news release:
Personal devices feed our sight and hearing virtually unlimited streams of information while leaving our sense of touch mostly ... untouched.
A wearable, textile-based device developed by Rice University engineers could help declutter, enhance -- and, in the case of impairments -- compensate for deficiencies in visual and auditory inputs by tapping this underused sensory resource.
Personal devices feed our sight and hearing virtually unlimited streams of information while leaving our sense of touch mostly ... untouched.
A wearable, textile-based device developed by Rice University engineers could help declutter, enhance -- and, in the case of impairments -- compensate for deficiencies in visual and auditory inputs by tapping this underused sensory resource.