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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. Trolling for redundancy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Wow, cybersex just got a thousand times better! For chickens, anyway."

    *cue an onslaught of 9 trillion posts making the exact same joke*

  2. one word by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    teledildonics

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  3. Re:Hmmm.... by Quirk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I kill the chicken. I cook the chicken. I eat the chicken... human-poultry interaction system

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  4. How is this "cybernetic"? by shadow_slicer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All they're doing is turning on a motor at the press of a button. The motor is in a jacket they put on the chickens. The button is in a replica chicken in another location.

    Please tell how this is anymore cybernetic than a telephone!
    You could start here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cybernetics

  5. Re:here's your cue, slashdot by strider44 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unfortunately you don't get karma for funny points, sorry mate!

    But since I'm posting on this thread anyway, I wonder what the actresses will feel about that...

  6. So what happens when... by qualico · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you /. one of these devices?

    Can't help but envision the future where your touch device is something you can have groups of people collaborating in all at once.

    Porn aside, since human touch can be one of the most positive feelings, maybe this will have a good impact on society.

    Now que in the "rub and tug" jokes.

  7. I forget which University it was... by jd · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...but there was one webcam site that allowed you to control robots to dig in sand, plant a garden, etc. And, of course, the Mars Rovers are about as remote as you can get - at least, this side of the Asteroid Belt.


    So they've managed to wire up a force-feedback VR system that can transmit IP packets. All things considered, I'm more amazed that this is even interesting, in this day and age. Given the usual speed of technological development, VR should be about at the point of regular home-use. We should be seeing virtual TV remotes inside of datagloves or Internet commerce through meaningfully browsable stores. (Actually, that was tried at one point. Not very successful, but the bandwidth really wasn't there.)


    In other words, we should be a bit beyond the chicken stage.

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  8. Re:This was bound to come... by name*censored* · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do realise that some ingenious pr0n site is going to come up with a system where they work out every touch sensation that could possibly happen with, say, a pornstar, and write a program that distributes those sensation signals to your suit based on where your hand is... kind of like, a blind man having sex with an inflatable doll, thinking it's a real girl. And then someone will rip the idea off and distribute it for free....

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