(Feb.3, '15) Scientists from Germany and Japan have developed a new
magnetic sensor, which is thin, robust and pliable enough to be smoothly
adapted to human skin, even to the most flexible part of the human palm. This
is feeding the vision to equip humans with magnetic sense.
Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and
even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for orientation
and navigation. Humans are however unable to perceive magnetic fields
naturally. Dr. Denys Makarov and his team have developed an electronic skin
with a magneto-sensory system that equips the recipient with a “sixth sense”
able to perceive the presence of static or dynamic magnetic fields.