Haptic technology tactual perception. The sense of touch may be classified as passive and active, and the term "haptic" is often associated with active touch to communicate or recognize objects. Haptic technology has made it possible to investigate how the human sense of touch works by allowing the creation of controlled haptic virtual objects. The word "haptic", from the ("haptikos"), means "pertaining to the sense of touch" and comes from the Greek verb ("haptesthai)", meaning "to contact" or "to touch". According to Robert Lee this sensation is also referred to as 3D touch One of the earliest applications of haptic technology was
The Five Senses (pair of paintings) at Cana" (taste). The Five Senses (pair of paintings) The Five Senses are a pair of oil paintings made by Jan Brueghel the Elder and others in 1617–18, at the same time as he was working with Peter Paul Rubens on a series of five paintings on the same topic. The originals were lost in a fire in 1731; faithful copies dated to c. 1620 were preserved and are in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Brueghel, like Rubens, was at this time working in Antwerp at the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of