h a l f b a k e r yYeah, I wish it made more sense too.
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These slip into any shoe and send minor electrical pulses to different nerve endings of the foot to simulate sensations like walking on grass, in cool water, on marble etc. If you have to wear shoes they can at least be multi-functional for extra comfort.
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How would it work, exactly? |
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i guess any surface but 'assortment of needles, at random locations' would be impossibly hard to simulate via peripheral stimulation, but apart from that: Brilliant! |
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C'mon be fair, it could well do "walking on hot coals" or "oops, I've trodden on an electric eel". |
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...or "my shoe is filling up with blood" |
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wow, shoes that come with your own personal
hypnotist with sensations being reinforced by
some electrons . |
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You could certainly send differing electric shocks to represent different surfaces. The question would be how easily you could correlate the two *and* how much it would feel like a form of torture rather than a handy, informative platform. |
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