Feeling with your Fingertips – the Long Read

Humans have lots of skin, with lots of nerves embedded in it.  All those nerves are churning away, second after second, sending millions of impulses to your brain – giving you all sorts of information about the world around you. When we’re selecting the materials/products that are nerve endings are reading – that new dining room table or countertop, replacement knobs for kitchen drawers, the travel case for our laptop that we’ll lift time after time, etc.—we often don’t put…

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