Patent ID: 7802314

Claim:
A hand-wear article for heightening the neurosensory response of the skin of the wearer, the article comprising a substrate having a skin-facing surface and a plurality of cutaneous sensory elements located on the substrate, the sensory elements being configured to define a surface roughness having a sharpness frequency in the range of about 100 Hz to about 1,000 Hz and a height in the range of about 0.1 microns to about 1000 microns, a compressible member overlying at least a portion of the skin-facing surface of the substrate and being compressible from an uncompressed condition to a compressed condition, in the uncompressed condition the compressible member generally hiding the plurality of cutaneous sensory elements to inhibit contact of the sensory elements with the skin, the sensory elements being exposed in the compressed condition of the compressible member for contact of the sensory elements with skin.