Comments on: Hair-thin ‘electronic skin’ monitors hearts and brains, controls video games

By: yogi-one

yogi-one — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:33:21 +0000

Sweet ! Thanks for bringing this back out. I missed it when it was first posted.

By: Yann

Yann — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Porn suit. eh? Not original.

Aldous Huxley predicted this in Brave New World. Movies will renamed the “Feelies”. Coming to a theatre near us sooner than we think.

By: vmaldia

vmaldia — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:23:20 +0000

reminds me of electoos, electronic tatoos in warhammer 40k and maybe star wars

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:03:03 +0000

Flexible circuit patches sounds like the stuff of the James Bond of the future. Locating even a temporary patch on the neck as shown seems to fly in the face of facial hair emerging from underneath, though.

By: Cmdr. Awesome

Cmdr. Awesome — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:29:17 +0000

“Holodeck suit, my @rse. Such a suit would inevitably be used for porn before anything else.”

So yong, so cynical. *rimshot*

By: Bee

Bee — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:48:11 +0000

Cool!

By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:07:23 +0000

Holodeck suit, my @rse. Such a suit would inevitably be used for porn before anything else.

I digress. In one of the bits above, Rogers mentions that the patch can stimulate as well as monitor. He’s working with physiotherapists to develop it as a way of stimulating degenerated muscle.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:20:34 +0000

This is amazing! I wonder how far we are off a suit of these things? No need for awkward sensors. Also combine it with this material that uses electricity to generate the sensation of texture http://laughingsquid.com/new-touch-interface-uses-electricity-to-simulate-textures-sensations/ and your almost looking at a holodeck suit!