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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. 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

  3. 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."