Sunday June 26, 2011
Give Me A Hand:
Gadget Hijacks Your Hand
Researchers have developed a way to control someone's hand movements.
The technique has already been used to help novices learn to play musical instruments.
From New Scientist:
Having successfully hijacked a hand, the researchers tried to teach it how to play the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument. Koto players wear different picks on three fingers, but pluck the strings with all five fingertips, so each finger produces a distinctive sound. A koto score tells players which fingers should be moved and when, and from this Tamaki and her team were able to generate instructions telling their device how and when to stimulate the wearer's muscles.
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