One of the inconveniences for patients that underwent amputations is a lack of ability of sensing tactile stimuli in the part of a limb they lost. This invention proposes a solution consisting in converting tactile stimuli into sound stimuli. This is done by means of a tactile sensor placed at the distal part of a prosthesis, whose signal converted appropriately determines generating a sound reflecting the touched surface. The sound can be defined for particular textures of the surface or modulated directly by the sensor signal. The system allows for detecting contact with an object or the surface and for extending perceptual skill of a non-amputee as well.
