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Cybernetic System to Allow Physical Interaction
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)."
Researchers ... are cybering... chickens??? Thank god the DARPA money is going to the right things.
I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!
Dunno if I'd go that far...
Physical interaction with humans over the internet? This sounds like many a Slashdot reader's idea of a wet dream.
Who wants to touch someone's cock online?
God spoke to me.
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?"
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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
This brings a whole new meaning to kicking someone off an IRC channel.
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.
He's actually trying to be constructive.
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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.
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".
All that time and money down the drain when we could have found out what yoda and chewbacca smelled like. Touch technology ... ridiculous.
... 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.
choke the chicken....
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.
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