Engineering extra senses

Kevin Warwick shows off an electronic baseball cap that allowed him to navigate his lab like a bat – with a kind of echolocation.

Sight, sound, touch, smell, taste. We interact with the world and navigate through it thanks to our senses. But what if we could add to that repertoire? A British scientist and a small group of enthusiasts are exploring ways to do just that.

My story aired on The World, in partnership with NOVA.

Rebecca Davey crouches behind a series of security scanners at the University of Manchester library. She can detect their magnetic field with her implant.

~ by Ari Daniel on December 19, 2012.

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Tags: brain, electrical, england, ethics, math, maths, oxford, stimulation, tDCS

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