assistive devices

  • ‘Electronic Skin’ Allows User Of Prosthetic Hand To Feel Pain

    ‘Electronic Skin’ Allows User Of Prosthetic Hand To Feel Pain

    Current prosthetic limbs aren’t yet capable of transmitting complex sensations such as texture or pain to the user, but a recent breakthrough by scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in which a synthetic layer of skin on an artificial hand transmitted feelings of pain directly to the user, takes us one step closer to…