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Cybernetic System to Allow Physical Interaction

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-all-know-what-this-is-for dept.

Ant writes "Wired News reports researchers have developed a cybernetic system to allow physical interaction over the Internet. The system allows touching and feeling of animals or other humans in real time, but it's first being tried out on -- chickens. The Touchy Internet Built was by a wacky group of researchers at the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore (NUS)."

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  1. Chickens by WillySilly · · Score: 1, Funny

    Virtual cock fights!

  2. Re:Handjobs? by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers ... are cybering... chickens??? Thank god the DARPA money is going to the right things.

  3. This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny



    I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!

    1. Re:This is news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with chickens while watching cyber girls on your computer.

    2. Re:This is news? by roseblood · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with chickens while watching cyber girls on your computer.

      You meant

      Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with cocks while watching cyber girls on your computer.

      --
      There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    3. Re:This is news? by pg110404 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!

      Touching yourself? Well that's not hard. I do that all the time.

      The trick is to get a real girl to want to touch you..... together OR remotely. That's the really hard part.

    4. Re:This is news? by David+Gould · · Score: 2, Funny


      I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!

      And you don't see any interesting potential applications for a system that can transmit tactile sensations via the internet? None at all?

      Sheesh, man, do you need someone to draw you a diagram?

      --
      David Gould
      main(i){putchar(340056100>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<6)<< 6)&&main(++i);}
  4. Hmmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    "This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed,"

    Dunno if I'd go that far...

    1. Re:Hmmm.... by Velox_SwiftFox · · Score: 5, Funny

      See me...
      Feel me...
      Pluck me...
      Meal me.

    2. Re:Hmmm.... by Phroggy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, you know what they say...

      Kinky is using a feather.

      Perverse is using the whole chicken.

      --
      $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
      $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
    3. Re:Hmmm.... by tincho_uy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Reminds me of the difference between erotic and exotic

      erotic is when you use a feather... exotic is when you use the hole chicken

  5. So... by SpartanVII · · Score: 4, Funny

    Physical interaction with humans over the internet? This sounds like many a Slashdot reader's idea of a wet dream.

  6. Wait! by winkydink · · Score: 3, Funny

    You want a handjob from a chicken or you want to give a handjob to a chicken?

    Either way, the term "choking the chicken" takes on a whole, new meaning.

    --

    "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

  7. Obligatory by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who wants to touch someone's cock online?

    --
    God spoke to me.
  8. Joy..... by stimpleton · · Score: 4, Funny


    Having tired of my favoritest pass time on the internet - hunting live animals with a remote control rifle...

    I can now indulge my 2nd favorite over the internet: feeling chickens.

    I can hear my non-nerd friend now: "But why don't you get a real chicken to feel?"

    --

    In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
  9. here's your cue, slashdot by hype7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    here's your cue, /.'ers. every corny line about porn on the internet ever seen, here's your chance to post it - free karma for all

    -- james

  10. if this is the ability to stab someone over th net by hsmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    I WILL PAY!!!! this would revolutionize the internet in ways never seen before

  11. Kicking by sethduda · · Score: 4, Funny

    This brings a whole new meaning to kicking someone off an IRC channel.

  12. Re:Handjobs? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of this just means they need to give the technology to the porn industry. They'll have it suitable for online sex in no time, and charge an arm and a leg for it. Or, if they can't get it beyond "poking people with sticks," they'll just open up an S&M site with it.

  13. we all know where this is going by TLouden · · Score: 2, Funny

    just combine it with the hi-def web cast and we'll have adult entertainment all over it's ass, literally

    --
    -Tim Louden
  14. Mod Parent -1 Off Topic by IcEMaN252 · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's actually trying to be constructive.

    --
    CitrusTV (http://www.citrustv.net): the Nation's Oldest & Largest Entirely Student-Run Television Station
  15. Re:Uhhh... by uberdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    So does this mean I can choke a chicken over the Internet now?

    Not in California.

    --
    "I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
  16. Re:Handjobs? by pete6677 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just hope they're able to effectively keep hackers out. Imagine what a goatse troll could do if they were able to hack into a virtual sex session. Wow, that thought just made internet sex a lot less appealing.

  17. God Help Me by TexVex · · Score: 2, Funny
    I swore I'd never do this...
    In cybernetic Internet, remote controls YOU
    I feel dirty. But more so from all the goddamn chicken jokes I've already read, mind you.
    --
    Fun with Anagarams! LADS HOST, SHALT DOS. HAS DOLTS. AD SLOTHS, HATS SOLD. ASS HO, LTD.
  18. subservos by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Funny

    The chickens are already cybernetic.

    --

    --
    make install -not war

  19. Re:I guess the chicken is the part of this that is by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I personally used a 20+ sensor cyberglove on an SGI IR

    Yeah, but did you use it on a chicken? I think all of you naysayers are missing the truly original, patent worthy use of this technology "...on a chicken".

    I'm going to invent reading email "...on a chicken".

  20. Rich and famous? by grishnav · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://bash.org/?4281 get up get on up get up get on up and DANCE * nmp3bot dances :D- i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

  21. All non-smellovision research is wasted on me by Che+Guevarra · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that time and money down the drain when we could have found out what yoda and chewbacca smelled like. Touch technology ... ridiculous.

  22. Re:Handjobs? by f1r3f0g · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... viewers suggested using the system for internet sex. Experts dismiss the whole idea as silly.

    Partly becasue it was a debasement of technology, but mostly because they never got invited to those sorts of parties.

  23. lots by gad_zuki! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome to the field of teledildonics.

  24. Gives a whole new meaning to.... by pg110404 · · Score: 4, Funny

    choke the chicken....

  25. That's exactly my point. Exactly. by darth_zeth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat feels like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat feels like actually feels like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken feel like, which is why chicken feels like everything.

    --
    "Nobody writes jokes in base 13." - Douglas Adams
  26. breasts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    that could have been a good poll
    what would you like to interact with?
    1) breasts
    2) breasts
    3) breasts
    4) breasts
    5) breasts
    6) Cmdr Taco breasts

  27. He wasn't kidding... by Cl1mh4224rd · · Score: 5, Funny
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <phxl|paper> and DANCE
    * nmp3bot dances :D-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D|-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D/-<
    <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
    http://bash.org/?top
    --
    People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.