New Scientist Says Rubber Fingers Are Your Future

To be filed in the “uncomfortable future decisions we’ll have to make in our jobs” drawer comes this odd story from New Scientist magazine to help kick off the start of a week. It’s “Rubber Finger Probes Sense of Touch,” which concerns a team of scientists in the UK building a computerized finger that will rate the tactile sensation of any sort object in relation to how much or how little it will appeal to a human being.