Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a wearable tail.
Japanese researchers designed a wearable robotic tail that could help humans keep better balance, said Jessie Yeung at CNN. The "biomimicry-inspired tail" is about 3 feet long. It's "covered in vertebrae-like plates" that contain sensors and has four artificial muscles to respond to the wearer's movements.
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