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Handshake via the Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the imagine-the-porntential dept.

mattlamb writes "British and American scientists will touch using sensors over the internet. "The implications of the experiment could be vast, said UCL, which describes the event as the world's "first transatlantic handshake over the Internet." " Let the juvenile comedy commence!

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  1. More info from MIT by burrito37 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a lot more info in this press release from MIT.
    Using this for telemedicine sounds particularly interesting...

  2. There is no handshake.. it's just hoped... by xintegerx · · Score: 2, Informative

    All they will try do is pick up a cube by working together somehow. A handshake in terms of what we know a handshake to be might not exactly happen.
    Two scientists -- one in London and one in Boston -- will try to pick up a cube between them and move it, each responding to the force the other exerts on it.
    (...)
    The implications of the experiment could be vast, said UCL, which describes the event as the world's "first transatlantic handshake over the Internet."

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    Cover your eyes and click this link!
  3. More information on hardware by Arakonfap · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think this link describes the hardware being used - atleast an earlier version of it. Found through google "touch device phantom"

    http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/1998/phantom.ht ml

  4. The Device They Are Using by istgut · · Score: 5, Informative

    The device they are using seems to be the Phantom by SensAble Tecnologies (product page). I used one of these a few weeks ago at USC's Integrated Media Systems Cetner, they're pretty cool. If you are interested in this kind of thing, the field is called "haptics," from the greek "to touch."

  5. Re:Speed/frequency confusion? by akiaki007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've decided not to mod and am going to reply to you. Frequency is very important when sending information. The higher frequencies travel faster and longer distances than those at lower frequencies, and have the ability to penetrate more surfaces. Thus, the higher frequency talked about here means that the information will be able to travel faster and farther than something at a lower frequency. Think prism.

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    "Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
  6. More info by boatboy · · Score: 1, Informative

    More technical article here