Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin'

Flash Modin writes "Two separate teams, one from UC Berkeley and the other from Stanford, have created distinct types of artificial skin that could find uses in prosthetics or artificial intelligence (Data in First Contact, anyone?). The first team coupled organic electronics with an elastic polymer to make electric skin that could sense a butterfly landing on it (abstract). The second team put a flexible material over a conductive rubber compound which had transistors implanted in it. The device can sense touch when the rubber is compressed, changing the electrical resistance (abstract)."

My first thought

[MagikSlinger]

Was thinking about teledildonics [wikipedia.org].

Or the Major from Ghost in the Shell.

But that's not really mutually exclusive. ;-)