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...patients must be constantly on guard against infection around the implanted electronics. Another drawback is that the Freehand system provides no tactile feedback for things like temperature, so users also have to be careful when handling hot objects such as cigarettes or coffee. To get around this problem, Thomas Sinkjaer and colleagues at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Denmark's Aalborg University are developing neural prosthetics that can actually feel the texture of objects and transmit this information back to the user...
...want to make patients aware of the parts of their bodies that they cannot sense," says Sinkjaer, who has worked with Brian Holgersen for the past six years, "and use sensory information from the skin to control the hand automatically as in able-bodied subjects." This kind of sensitive prosthetic would recruit afferent nerves to send tactile information from paralyzed limbs to other parts of the body, where the sensations could be perceived. With such a device Holgersen might feel the weight of a freshly brewed cup of coffee as a tingling sensation on his cheek; the heavier...