Tactel

Tactel

A tactel (short for tactile element) is a single sensing point on a tactile sensing array. A tactel is equivalent to a pixel, in that an array of tactels represents an image of the surface being touched.

[http://www.tactel.com/ Tactel] is also a trademarked brand of synthetic fiber first introduced in 1983 [cite web |url=http://www.tactel.com/en/about/tactel_history-nylon.htm |title=The history of nylon |accessdate=2008-04-29] and is produced by [http://www.invista.com/ Invista] .

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