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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. Is it just me.. by Laura_007 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  2. What is the hardware? by HogGeek · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What is providing the "feel" on the remote end?

    Is it a suit? and "hand" like object? a glove?

    The article is very vague! Anyone find other article on this?

  3. Re:Other possibilities? by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm waiting to read about the first haptic murder. Would a phantom knife cut?

  4. Uh, yeah by The+Dobber · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. This is fascinating stuff. by DohDamit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.