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How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet

Posted by timothy on from the anything-between-consenting-adult-beings dept.

the_newsbeagle writes "Adrian Cheok, a professor of electrical engineering in Japan, wants to invent a "multisensory Internet" that will transmit not just information, but also experiences. To usher in this new age, he started by building a haptic system that enabled him to send a hug to a chicken via the Internet. Next came the 'huggy pajama' project, which allowed distant parents to send their kid a goodnight squeeze. Lately he's begun working on sending a taste over the internet with his 'digital lollypop' project."

6 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Chicken Hugging by JediPhreaK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really? Hug a Chicken? Come on it's called Choking your chicken, the Internet is a weird place.

  2. Suspicious by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    So he made a device where you can hug a cock over the internet... now he wants to allow you to taste a cock? Count me out.

    1. Re:Suspicious by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hear that cock tastes like chicken.

  3. H.E.A.V.E.N. by GrpA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haptically Enhanced Advanced Virtual Environment Network

    H.E.A.V.E.N.

    Nice to see some of this technology starting to progress.

    GrpA.

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  4. On the internet.. by Megahard · · Score: 4, Funny

    nobody knows you're a chicken.

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    I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
  5. Re:Digital Lollipop by wierd_w · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just waiting for such a technology as that lollipop to actually take off, so I can read about hackers replacing the digital data for the flavor information with that harvested from a turd.

    That's some prankstering hacking I would roffle reading.