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How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet
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."
Really? Hug a Chicken? Come on it's called Choking your chicken, the Internet is a weird place.
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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.
Y'know, make all the genital slang references you want, but at the end of the day, this is about hugging chickens. And chickens are cute-looking fluffy creatures that look like they need a hug. And this allows you to do so without getting scratched up or pecked!
...just think about the possibilities
i can just imagine the commotion a mechanical monster lumbering into the run to give them a hug. I wouldn't have eggs for days!
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.
To me it seems simulating the sense, either touch, taste, or anything else that is the hard part. Sending the data over the net seems pretty straightforward a capable connection.
It's an important step forward, but only in Japan would hugging a chicken be an intermediate step.
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Sending hugs over the internet has little practical purposes.
On the other hand you could solve a lot of the worlds problems if we could punch people in the face over the internet.
I'm very glad I don't have to write that interface spec...
Haptically Enhanced Advanced Virtual Environment Network
H.E.A.V.E.N.
Nice to see some of this technology starting to progress.
GrpA.
Enjoy science fiction? "Turing Evolved" - AI, Mecha, Androids and rail-gun battles. What more could you want?
nobody knows you're a chicken.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
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.
How many chicken were squeezed to death before he got the machine working?
You think you have it bad, imagine the geeksquad call.
She said she wanted more foreplay.
Cool story.
I want to see Temple Grandin's version of these remote hug machines.
Isn't that a hip hop song?
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There unfortunately are a lot of lonely nerds who need a hug, even if there is no one there. Seems they just want an actual human to initiate the hugtastic ordeal.
Note - don't leech a hacker's wifi if you're going to be downloading taste or smell files.
"Hug a chicken"? "Huggy pajamas"? "Digital lollipop"?
I've read some disturbing things on Slashdot, but this turns it up to eleven.
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``My god, it's made up of sensory stimuli!''
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And what craziness would ensue for those who has cross-sensory transference known as synesthesia.
People with synesthesia have abnormal but recurring cross-sensory stimulus associations, such as the letter L being associated with the color pink, or a certain musical note having a particular flavor associated with it. It's not the color of noise electrical engineers and audio people talk about with white noise or pink noise, but colorful noise as in noise inciting color stimuli centers in the brain. Muy cool. But I would hate to receive cross sensory spam.
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And I'm thinking that there are some science fiction stories that talk about attack advertisements that sneak up on you. Perhaps Philip K Dick, but a girlfriend says perhaps Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison, instead. Anyone know for sure?
"Ready for operation. Click to enlarge" . :-)
Slipping shoelaces ?
Sometimes Gabe will choke you.
It's an important step forward, but only in Japan would hugging a chicken be an intermediate step.
You have to take account of the proverbial Japanese indirectness. What the professor wants to demonstrate becomes clearer when you think of the following distinction: eroticism is when you use a feather; pornography is when you use to whole chicken.
What interface? Nobody seen "strange days" around here? The future will simply bypass all the bullshit and send the simulation directly into your brain. Talk about an easy way to keep the masses passive! They could live in the worst rat hole and be happy as clams, as long as they could plug in at the end of the day.
"If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain" and THAT will be the future, only it won't be brought by some enslaving machines, it'll be brought by megacorps who'll make a fricking killing. We are now just starting to figure this stuff out, glasses that let the blind see, sounds broadcast to the brain, but you can bet your last dollar they WILL figure out how to just send the signals directly to your brain, then no "interface" needed. Plug in, tune out.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
A friend, Dr Florian "Floyd" Mueller of RMIT University here in Melbourne, Australia also published a paper on a project called "Hug over a distance" back in early 2005... The projects look surprisingly similar... Floyd heads up the Exertion Games Lab which does a lot of similar "over a distance" Internet enabled interactions.
They respond favorably to holding, petting, etc. Hugging is too much as they are lightly built.
(I have backyard chickens.)
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Breath over IP was done several years ago.