A Look at our Sense of Touch
Primal, Acute and Easily Duped: Our Sense of Touch is a recent article from Pulitzer Prize-winning Natalie Angier (author of The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science) taking a rudimentary look at the sense of touch and some recent research in the field of haptics.
Scientists have determined that the human finger is so sensitive it can detect a surface bump just one micron high […] 1/25,000th of an inch — the diameter of a bacterial cell.
Aside from the fascinating accuracy of the sense, the article looks briefly at what is dubbed the ‘rubber hand illusion’ which Mind Hacks looks at in more detail—and I suggest you do too.
via Seed