News tagged with tactile motion
How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
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Scientists create touch-based illusion
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Jul 17, 2008 |
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Anyone who has seen an optical illusion can recall the quirky moment when you realize that the image being perceived is different from objective reality. Now, a team of scientists from MIT, Harvard and McGill has designed ...
Why Do We Have Fingerprints?
Apr 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike most wrinkles on our bodies, which appear due to bending and stretching of the skin, fingerprints aren't the result of repeated motion. Each of us is born with a unique set of them, ...
Tactile input affects what we hear: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.
Researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action
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Feb 27, 2008 |
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Rats use their whiskers in a way that is closely related to the human sense of touch: Just as humans move their fingertips across a surface to perceive shapes and textures, rats twitch their whiskers to achieve ...
RIM Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Research In Motion today announced the sleek and powerful BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 offers an extensive array of high-end communications and multimedia features in a compact ...
Robot's gentle touch aids delicate cancer surgery
Aug 21, 2009 |
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New, delicate surgery techniques to hunt for tumours could benefit from a lighter touch - but from a robot, rather than from a human hand. Canadian researchers have created a touchy-feely robot that detects tougher tumour ...
Small Fingers More Touch Sensitive
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2009 |
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When it comes to finger sensitivity, bigger isn't always better.
Spirit Rover: Rear Wheel Trouble Continues
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels.
T-Mobile USA, RIM Introduce BlackBerry Curve 8520
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5.
Further Tests Designed for Rover's Right-Rear Wheel
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A series of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on sols 2104 and 2105 (Dec. 3 and 4) investigated stalls that occurred on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28) and earlier. The rover team cannot draw ...
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