If you could feel a digital texture as vividly as touching real fabric — the rough weave of corduroy, the smoothness of leather — what would that change about how we interact with machines? At ...

Digital touch has lagged far behind sight and sound because current haptic devices can’t match the human fingertip’s spatial or temporal resolution. Researchers created VoxeLite, an ultra-thin ...

A new bandage-like device allows people to “feel” textures through touchscreens. The soft, stretchable material wraps around a fingertip to give digital touch the same realism people now expect from ...

Doctoral student Sylvia Tan, who led the study said: “Touch is the last major sense without a true digital interface. “We have technologies that make things look and sound real. "Now, we want to make ...