Bionic Fingertip?!

Bionic Fingertip

• An amputee for the first time can feel rough and smooth textures in real-time, as though the fingertip were naturally connected to his hand.
• Researchers connected a postage-stamp-size artificial fingertip to electrodes surgically implanted to nerves.
• Researchers have already integrated the new fingertip into a prosthetic hand. 
• Currently, the fingertip can discern textures on a millimeter scale
• They have developed an artificial fingertip that can discriminate such fine textures, and they hope to have patients test it on items such as clothes.