By Stephen Beech

A new bandage-like device allows people to "feel" textures through touchscreens.

The soft, stretchable material wraps around a fingertip to give digital touch the same realism people now expect from today’s screens and speakers.

It lets users feel the digital world at "human resolution" - meaning it accurately matches the sensing abilities of the human fingertip, according to American engineers at Northwestern University in Illinois.

They say their ultra-thin, lightweight, flexible, wearable device - called VoxeLite - recreates touch sensations with the same clarity, detail and speed that skin naturally detects.

It could transform how people interact with digital environments - including more immersive virtual reality systems, assistive technologies for people wit

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