Prosthetic Hand Restores the Sense of Touch
From: Medical Design Technology - 10/09/2014

System providing sensation for more than 2 years

Even before he lost his right hand to an industrial accident 4 years ago,
Igor Spetic had family open his medicine bottles. Cotton balls give him goose
bumps.

Now, blindfolded during an experiment, he feels his arm hairs rise when a
researcher brushes the back of his prosthetic hand with a cotton ball.

Spetic, of course, can't feel the ball. But patterns of electric signals are
sent by a computer into nerves in his arm and to his brain, which tells him
different. "I knew immediately it was cotton," he said.

Read the entire article and view a video (3:17) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/10/prosthetic-hand-restores-sense-touch

Links:
Prosthetic System with Electrode Cuff Restores Sense of Touch for Amputee
http://video.techbriefs.com/video/Prosthetic-System-with-Electrod;medical

Restoring Familiar Sensations to Amputees
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/videos/2014/10/restoring-familiar-sensations-amputees

Amputees discern familiar sensations across prosthetic hand
http://thedaily.case.edu/news/amputees-discern-familiar-sensations-across-prosthetic-hand/
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/1104-mdb/news/20845

Wiring nerves to prosthetic recreates sense of touch
http://o.canada.com/health/wiring-nerves-to-prosthetic-recreates-sense-of-touch

Dustin Tyler
https://bme.case.edu/FacultyStaff/PrimaryFaculty/Tyler/

Step Toward Artificial Hand with a Sense of Touch
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2014/10/step-toward-artificial-hand-sense-touch