/mechanical/ en /mechanical/2025/01/15/toms-guide-calls-segil-afference-future-digital-touch <span>Tom's Guide calls Segil, Afference "the future of digital touch"</span> <span><span>Alexander Jame…</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-01-15T14:51:52-07:00" title="Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 14:51">Wed, 01/15/2025 - 14:51</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/mechanical/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-01/EYc5jHAui3EiUbXMm6biYD-1200-80.png?h=e4c65b60&amp;itok=t8NrAXMw" width="1200" height="800" alt="Digital haptics device, developed by Afference"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/14"> All News </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/110"> Biomedical </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/369"> Entrepreneurship </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/339"> Faculty </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/333"> Research </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/106"> Robotics and Systems Design </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/622"> homepage news </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/631" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/391" hreflang="en">Homepage News</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/511" hreflang="en">Jacob Segil</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Research Professor Jacob Segil is also the CEO of Boulder startup Afference. The company traveled to Las Vegas for this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to showcase what's being called "the new frontier" of spatial computing: a neural haptic ring that allows users to feel something even when touching nothing.</div> <script> window.location.href = `https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vr-ar/i-just-found-spatial-computings-missing-link-the-afference-ring-is-the-future-of-digital-touch`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:51:52 +0000 Alexander James Servantez 4371 at /mechanical /mechanical/2021/09/08/video-membrane-powered-prosthetics <span>Video: Membrane-Powered Prosthetics</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-09-08T11:55:35-06:00" title="Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 11:55">Wed, 09/08/2021 - 11:55</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/mechanical/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/screen_shot_2021-09-08_at_11.54.20_am.png?h=a1c5e61a&amp;itok=Th_Fx96V" width="1200" height="800" alt="Membrane-powered prosthetics"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/110"> Biomedical </a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/333"> Research </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/383" hreflang="en">2021</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/391" hreflang="en">Homepage News</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/511" hreflang="en">Jacob Segil</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/501" hreflang="en">John Pellegrino</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/417" hreflang="en">Summer</a> <a href="/mechanical/taxonomy/term/567" hreflang="en">Video</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><div>Researchers at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ and CU Anschutz teamed up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to use glucose from our body to power small medical devices. Mechanical engineering Professors <a href="/mechanical/node/268" rel="nofollow">John Pellegrino</a> and <a href="/mechanical/node/3297" rel="nofollow">Jacob Segil </a>are&nbsp;working with the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center to use this innovative approach and provide continuous power to limbs, pacemakers and insulin pumps.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><p class="text-align-center">[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_KFb_nhmRc]</p><p class="text-align-center">&nbsp;</p><p class="text-align-center">&nbsp;</p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Mechanical Engineering professors teamed up with the Department of Veterans Affairs to use glucose from our body to power small medical devices.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:55:35 +0000 Anonymous 3363 at /mechanical