University of Limeric, Ireland, is developing a training simulator that will help medical staff to learn the delicate procedure of spinal anaesthesia.
Spinal anaesthesia is a form of regional anaesthesia where the effect is obtained by injecting of a local anaesthetic into the spine (cerebrospinal fluid, more precisely). It is sometimes preferred to a complete anaesthesia [...]

Several days ago, at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference 2009, Phillips was supposed to present a study carried out using a haptic jacket!
Researches were up to describing the effects of touch on a movie viewers' emotional response to what the movie characters are experiencing. Practically, they would simulate the same tactile experience the character [...]