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Facebook designing a device that allows you to feel messages through your skin

Publish Date
Mon, 30 Apr 2018, 8:27pm
Facebooks researchers are developing a device to allow users to feel messages through their skin. (Photo / Getty )
Facebooks researchers are developing a device to allow users to feel messages through their skin. (Photo / Getty )

Facebook designing a device that allows you to feel messages through your skin

Publish Date
Mon, 30 Apr 2018, 8:27pm

Facebook's coming up with a new way to constantly be on social media.

Its researchers are developing a device to allow users to feel messages through their skin.

The sleeve-like prototype translates words into vibrations delivered by pads onto the arm.

A paper published by Facebook points out "it can be devastating to miss important call, text, or notification from a loved one".

Researchers say their invention is needed to receive messages in situations when users can't check their smartphones, such as during a meeting, when in the cinema, or while attending church.

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