Reach Out and Cyber-touch

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Computer scientists are studying how the sense of touch can be achieved in the virtual world. Recently, scientists at MIT actually achieved the first trans-atlantic touch  ? through computers. Rachel Gotbaum reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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