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Handshake via the Internet
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!
wouldn't this be a step backwards? It is ignoring the vast mental conveyance abilities of the internet to revert to the warn physical ideas that most people are so impressionable about. I think that this might reignate the prior discussions that we've had regarding psychological attachment disorders. People should learn to communicate via things like email or ICQ.
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Is it a suit? and "hand" like object? a glove?
The article is very vague! Anyone find other article on this?
I'm waiting to read about the first haptic murder. Would a phantom knife cut?
So it's like a really sophisticated version of a Nintendo Game Glove. Or a MS Sidewinder Controller with Force Feedback.
Sorry, I don't see whats so awe inspiring about sending data through a network.
Maybe it's just me.
Where would the trial be for getting assaulted by one of these devices? Source of or at the receiving end of the bitch slap?
Have a read:
http://onyx.he.net/~hotmoves/LIC/dildonics/
1. Legal documents can be signed over the Internet. People can put their actual signature down on a piece of paper(provided there's a webcam so they can see what they're signing.)
2. Provide someone with a transparent mask, and you have talking heads. Beyond the humor factor, you can see all the things they're not saying with their words.
3. Boxing matches, over the Net. Fight games, oh, and UT5 will be a whole lot more fun.
4. Back to serious applications, medical procedures could be performed, once this technology was sufficiently advanced. Doctors already wear scopes. Throw on some gloves with this tech and you can hire the best surgeon in the world to perform battlefield surgery(or for those who don't have war on the brain, surgery performed out in the middle of the wilderness.)
Yeah, I get the porn. Blah blah. So what. This advance is truly amazing, and we'd be fools not to see what we can do with it.
Yes. And no. I think that emulating biological emulation is the absolute best example of counter intuitiveness; unless and until those emulation are perfect (which means at the very least interfacing at a neural level, absolute replication of every aspect, and no added latency) the fact that it is almost, but not quite, like the "real thing" is going to make learning to use it harder than it would be to use an arbitrary system.
Just look at the problems adolescent humans get trying to use their own limbs because their specs keep changing subtly, making them not-quite what they were when they were kids. The joke about teenagers tripping on their own feet because they forget how to use them isn't much of one.
Transparent and intuitive are perfect goals, but modeling tools against biological equivalents is the wrong way of acheiving this.
Look at a very simple interface: a door handle. There are no biological equivalent, but it does its task in a very simple fashion most humans learn without trouble.
You're working under the presumption that biological systems are inherently easier to comprehend, but look how long it takes humans to master their own body enough to walk, and most will never master it enough to dance ballet.
-- MG