US military develops prosthetic hand that can 'feel'

Sense of touch: Researchers are working on prosthetics that would let wearers have the ability to feel sensations of touching.

WASHINGTON: Researchers fitted a man who has been paralysed for more than a decade with an experimental prosthetic hand that lets him "feel" sensations, the US military's futuristic development department said. 

Scientists wired electrodes into the 28-year-old patient's sensory cortex, which is the part of the brain that identifies tactile sensations, enabling him to perceive a basic sense of touch.