Mimicking the sense of touch electronically has been challenging, and can be achieved by measuring changes in resistance prompted by mechanical touch.
Nelson, in mentioning that grilling outdoors involves the use of all senses, noted that the sense of touch comes in handy for cooking steaks.
We're of course talking about the sense of touch, not emotions.
Interestingly, body based attention to touch sensations, and more generally the sense of touch, are disordered in chronic pain and IBS. And the disorder seems to be mediated by a cortical mechanism.
So, what I intuited from my work on placebo was that many therapies may elicit healing by using the sense of touch, or more generally the manipulation of somatic attention in order to address a disordered somatic-attention system.
These include the frontal cortex (where decisions are made), the motor cortex (which controls muscle activity), the somatosensory cortex (where the sense of touch is located) and the part of the parietal cortex that regulates kinaesthesia (the sense of bodily motion, which is built up from signals from the muscles and the vestibular systems of the ears).
"I always scoffed at digital pianos, mainly because the ones I had tried in the past had a very unrefined sense of touch, " Ms. Dinnerstein said.
Those tiles are fine for tablets and OK for touch screen PCs, but they make no sense for the vast majority of desktop and laptop PCs that lack a touch screen.
The sense of being connected that way can obviate the need to actually keep in regular touch.
He also had the touch of country common sense.
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Was it another artful touch to give the property a sense of history, a ready-made story, perhaps, about an impish guest who absconded with the bills?
The HTC Merge smartphone combines a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard with the power of Android 2.2, the HTC Sense experience, a large 3.8-inch touch-screen display and a 5 megapixel camera to create a complete mobile experience for those looking for a truly complete smartphone.
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As you might recall, the current Quench is the international version of the CLIQ XT, which makes perfect sense -- the XT is a midrange full-touch Android phone, so as far as we can tell, we're looking at its successor here.
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It is experience that can give a person a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.
Even as engineers stuff ever more gigahertz and gigabytes under the hood, the shell and shape of a phone is the only part that we ever touch, and the only part that is really a part of our lives in any physical sense.
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