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copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer's sentimental reaction to what the abc's are experiencing. 'People don't realize how subtle we are to touch, notwithstanding it is the first sense that fetuses develop in the womb,' says Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior missile engineer who will be presenting investigation done using the jacket at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics conferring in Salt Lake City. The jacket contains 64 independently hard drug actuators distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators are arrayed in 16 groups of four and linked along a serial bus; each group shares a microprocessor. The actuators draw so little current that the jacket could operate for an hour on its two AA batteries even if the system was continuously driving 20 of the motors simultaneously."

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