senses
Digital Noise Is Creeping Out Our Brains’ Fear Network
What happens in our brains when we hear things that creep us out, and how that’s changing in an age awash in digital noise.
Why Some Parents Choose to Have a Deaf Baby
Reproductive tech could threaten or preserve deaf culture.
In the Future You Could Zap Your Brain with Your Phone to Stop Motion Sickness
Researchers found transcranial direct current stimulation could help alleviate motion-induced nausea.
You Can Soon Smell, Taste, and Hear These 20th Century Paintings
London's Tate Britain museum has created an immersive art experience which aims to stimulate all the senses, not just sight.
Multisensory Cinema Adds Smell and Touch to VR Worlds
In "The Feelies," artists and scientists virtually transport participants to New York and Jordan.
Losing Your Sense of Smell Really Stinks
Anosmia—an inability to smell—is more common than blindness or deafness, and it can be more isolating than you think.
Rewiring the Brain to Create New Senses
How the brain's neuroplasticity lets us substitute one sense for another—and invent new ones.
Faking Taste With Electrical Shocks to the Tongue Is Our Dystopian Food Future
Taste+ promises to make something like Soylent as appetizing as foie gras without changing its nutritional content in the slightest.
How Haptics Make Holograms You Can Touch
Hiroyuki Shinoda pioneered haptic holograms years ago, and now he thinks the world is nearly ready for this tech.
What It's Like to Work at a Restaurant Staffed by Deaf People
Extra mirrors, brighter lights, and a "cheat book" for customers. We asked the bartender at Signs, Canada's first restaurant where the entire staff is deaf, what it's like to work there.
The Man Who Tastes Sounds
Things get difficult when you're a synaesthete and the name of a friend's wife tastes like sick.
Smell-O-Vision Is Back (And Possibly the Future of Storytelling)
Chris Milk, Google Creative Labs, and more bring out the big guns to give us tomorrow's narrative experiences, today.