How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet

Posted by timothy on Friday October 26, 2012 @02:43PM 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."

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Tremendous implications for telemedicine by Andy+Prough · 2012-10-26 15:15 · Score: 5, Interesting

True remote physical examinations, with the patient and physician both feeling and responding to the tactile interaction. This could be huge - especially in terms of extreme remote medicine, such as handling astronaut-patients on lengthy missions to Mars or the asteroid belt.