Vest Uses Haptics for Speech by Feel

The Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer (VEST) under development at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine represents a new form of wearable haptics, one that could find many applications beyond its initial goal of enabling the profoundly deaf to "feel" and understand speech through their body.

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