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Low-Cost "Paper Skin" Boasts Same Sensory Functions As the Real Thing (gizmag.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the rock-paper-scissors dept.

Zothecula writes: Multipurpose sensors that are both flexible and wearable could one day be used for everything from monitoring the body's vital signs to changing the way we interact with computers. Working toward this goal, researchers in Saudi Arabia have used low-cost everyday items that you probably have laying around your house to develop a paper-based sensor that reacts to the same stimuli as human skin, such as pressure, touch and temperature.

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  1. Super-touch-sensor tissue by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 2

    Where is all that screeching and wailing coming from? It sounds like Mr. Whipple squeezed the new super-touch-sensor Charmin over in aisle 7.

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  2. Re:This has enormous ramifications. by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

    Dammit, you beat me to the obligatory "sexbot" comment! Wait until the Japanese get there hands on this!

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  3. The summary needs fixing by cripkd · · Score: 3, Funny

    "that reacts to the same stimuli as human skin, such as pressure, touch,flogging, beating and temperature" There, since this is from Saudi Arabia, I fixed that.

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  4. Re:This has enormous ramifications. by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2

    Dammit, you beat me to the obligatory "sexbot" comment! Wait until the Japanese get there hands on this!

    Yeah... their hands...

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