Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality
13 May 2023
Stimulating nerves on the back of your hand makes it feel like you are grasping things in VR without needing to have your palms covered in material
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High-tech face mask lets you smell things in virtual reality
9 May 2023
A face mask can release nine different scents on demand to make VR experiences more immersive and multisensory
Bone conduction headphones make your own voice sound less weird
15 February 2023
Listening to a recording of yourself speaking can be unnerving – but headphones that alter the sound can make your voice seem more familiar and may help us understand schizophrenia hallucinations
Google AI can tell what things smell like by the molecular structure
12 September 2022
An artificial intelligence model that maps the structure of molecules to their smell could help create specific food tastes or find compounds to better repel disease-carrying organisms like mosquitoes
Computer chip will sniff your armpits and tell you when you have BO
18 December 2018
Technology firm Arm is building computer chips that will smell their surroundings. It wants to use them to spot gone-off food and to tell people if they have BO
Electric chewing gum zaps your tongue to create a virtual flavour hit
16 October 2018
An 'unlimited chewing gum' uses an electric charge to trick you into experiencing flavours – and they don’t fade in the way chewing gum flavour usually does
VR headset helps people who are legally blind see again
1 August 2018
A VR headset has helped people who are legally blind see again. While it didn’t cure their blindness, they were able to resume activities they previously found impossible
A fifth of people hear sounds when watching silent GIFs. Do you?
19 March 2018
Ever felt like you’ve heard a video even though the sound was turned off? As many as 20 per cent of us may “hear” silent GIFs and other moving objects
It's never too late to get a tattoo, an implant – or new senses
3 January 2018
From altering your body, enhancing your senses or improving cognitive function, you need to be a risk-taker to plug into the dark arts of body modification
Painter, painter of the wall, what's the fairest colour of all?
2 January 2018
The race to find the blackest black or pinkest pink has caused spats in the art world. The big difficulty is how to objectively judge them
