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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. a new idea? by verbatim · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is this a *new* idea? Hardly.

    http://www.fu-fme.com/ (humor)
    http://www.sinulator.com/ (real)

    So I guess the next logical step was a chicken. I think these guys have spent too much time on a farm.

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  2. Recommended Reading!!! by Kulaid982 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I highly recommend that you check out Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines published by Penguin Putnam in 2000...
    I read the book for a paper in a class I took with Dr. Foerst of MIT AI lab fame...

    Anyway, as I recall, Kurzweil goes into a lengthy discussion of nanobots that would totally enable a level of virtual-reality interaction with other humans... He discussed a whole new level of cyber-sex encompassing all the tactile sensation without the STD's.

    Seriously, check it out, it will make you think!

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  3. Re:This is news? by pugnatious · · Score: 2, Informative

    I always thought humans were a subset of animals
    and not vice versa ...