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…

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> Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics : http://bit.ly/12b4dUZ
> GRASP Lab/University of Pennsylvania : http://bit.ly/103GVwA
> Haptic Exploration Laboratory/Johns Hopkins : http://bit.ly/12b4Eim
> Mechanical Engineering/Stanford : http://stanford.io/12b4Pdw

 


Via Serge Meunier