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rjtjrt
The gent who came up with the idea and did the inventing is an American, Angus Rupert, as reported in the ABC article.
He gave a very interesting presentation about this a few months ago at a medical meeting.
According to the ABC article, the idea is a joint project between Angus Rupert and Braden McGrath, an Australian.
Mr McGrath is an Australian who has studied at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and wound up at the US Naval Aerospace Medical Research Lab where he met Mr Rupert.The pair have been developing tactile-cueing technology since the mid-1990s.
Mr McGrath said he believed, based on the test's results, Defence would move to the next phase. That would mean more test flights with more pilots.
The system's developers hope adoption of the technology will be faster in Australia than in the US.
"It moves rather slowly [there]," Mr Rupert said, of testing in the American military.
Parochial as it may be, it seems that there is some merit in the headline and its claims.