In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...

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We don't often think of touch as being a vital part of movement, but touch is one part of a network that oversees all the sensations arising from the surface and interior of our bodies. Touch, pain, temperature, and our spatial awareness...

Discover how groundbreaking research is bringing the sense of touch back to prosthetic limbs, transforming lives.<br/>

Discover how groundbreaking research is bringing the sense of touch back to prosthetic limbs, transforming lives.

National Science Foundation-funded small business SynTouch has developed a sensor technology that gives robots the ability to replicate -- and sometimes exceed -- the human sense of touch. Their sensor is modeled after the human...

This video explores the concept of multi-sensory integration, which is the study of how our different senses work together to process information. It discusses how our senses can influence each other and affect our perception of the...

As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel -- the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the...

Keith Kirkland is developing wearable tech that communicates information using only the sense of touch. He's trying to figure out: What gestures and vibration patterns could intuitively communicate ideas like "stop" or "go"? Check out...

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Miss Palomine discovers that her cup is leaking, thanks to her sense of touch. She tells the student that her hands helped her find out what had happened. She and the student then begin a discussion of all the information he can learn...

Ouch! That hurt! When your baby brother bites your finger, how do you feel it? How do you know whatês hot or whatês cold? How can you tell if something is soft or scratchy or damp? Most of all, how do we feel pain? Weêre talking about...

It’s common knowledge that our sense of taste is tied to our sense of smell, right? But our brains are complex and taste is also tied to our senses of touch, sight, and even hearing.

Are the five senses really all that we use to take in the world around us, or is it a little more complex than that, with psychology playing a more prominent role than you might have thought?

I wrote this for my early elementary science classes to teach about the sense of touch! (lyrics below) lyrics: Skin, skin, We're covered in skin, Skin gives our sense of touch, Skin, skin, We're covered in skin, Skin can touch so much......

In this five senses for kids video we will answer the question, "What are the five senses?" which are the sense of sight, sense of taste, sense of sound, sense of smell, and sense of touch. These senses can vary between individuals so we...

We make sense of the world around us through touch, smell, sight, taste and sound. But what are these senses and how does the body and brain process them? Biology - Being Human - Learning Points. Our senses detect information from our...

Most people have thought about: How does it feel to die? What is death like? In this video, I examine what science says about this. Some commonalities in what people experience are: positive emotions, meeting...

Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles, Biomechatronics Lab are designing artificial limbs to be more sensational, with the emphasis on sensation. With support from the National Science Foundation,...

In this video, the teacher explains the importance of the tongue and its role in our sense of taste. They discuss the basic tastes our tongues can detect, the number of taste buds in our body, and how taste and smell work together to...

Seals and sea lions use whiskers to sense the world around them.
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This video provides an overview of hair, explaining its composition, functions, and various types. It explores how hair helps regulate body temperature, protects the body from external elements, and enhances our sense of touch.

In this week's episode, we learn about new tools to protect against malicious websites, restoring the sense of touch to amputees and those with paralysis and examine how older adults really hear.

In this week's episode, we learn about new tools to protect against malicious websites, restoring the sense of touch to amputees and those with paralysis, and examine how older adults hear.