Cybernetic System to Allow Physical Interaction 215
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)."
Chickens (Score:1, Funny)
This is news? (Score:5, Funny)
I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!
Re:This is news? (Score:2)
So are they an "animal" or "other human"?
Re:This is news? (Score:2, Informative)
and not vice versa
Re:This is news? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is news? (Score:2, Funny)
You meant
Ah, yes. But this allows you to interact with cocks while watching cyber girls on your computer.
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
Touching yourself? Well that's not hard. I do that all the time.
The trick is to get a real girl to want to touch you..... together OR remotely. That's the really hard part.
Re:This is news? (Score:3, Funny)
I already interact with myself while I watch cyber girls on my computer. Man, this ain't news!
And you don't see any interesting potential applications for a system that can transmit tactile sensations via the internet? None at all?
Sheesh, man, do you need someone to draw you a diagram?
This was bound to come... (Score:1)
Re:This was bound to come... (Score:1)
Re:This was bound to come... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:This was bound to come... (Score:3, Insightful)
Reminds me of the FU-FME (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh the golden days of the 'net are brought to fruition!
Re:This was bound to come... (Score:2)
Trolling for redundancy (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*
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Dunno if I'd go that far...
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Feel me...
Pluck me...
Meal me.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2)
Yeah, I'm sure that's what he meant...
Certainly nothing along the lines of South Park Season 2, Episode 03, I'm sure... [spscriptorium.com]
Re: (Score:1)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2)
Flippin sweet!
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Kinky is using a feather.
Perverse is using the whole chicken.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
Reminds me of the difference between erotic and exotic
erotic is when you use a feather... exotic is when you use the hole chicken
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2)
Wait... nevermind, I don't want to know.
Re: (Score:2)
So... (Score:4, Funny)
Or nightmare. (Score:2)
*STAB*
Re:So... (Score:2)
Or at least the pre-cursor to one.
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:1)
It's times like this when I wish there was a +6 Too Damned Funny modifier, you'd get it.
Re:Obligatory (Score:1)
Damnit. I'm going to have a hard time falling asleep tonight...
lots (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:2)
Yeah! And who wants to choke my chicken?
Oops...
Joy..... (Score:5, Funny)
Having tired of my favoritest pass time on the internet - hunting live animals with a remote control rifle...
I can now indulge my 2nd favorite over the internet: feeling chickens.
I can hear my non-nerd friend now: "But why don't you get a real chicken to feel?"
That's exactly my point. Exactly. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's exactly my point. Exactly. (Score:2)
here's your cue, slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
-- james
Re:here's your cue, slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
But since I'm posting on this thread anyway, I wonder what the actresses will feel about that...
Re:here's your cue, slashdot (Score:1)
From 1+million horny teenagers, quite a bit...
one word (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:one word (Score:3, Interesting)
-Ben
pr0n (Score:2)
Internet Sluts (Score:1)
How about medical uses... (Score:5, Interesting)
Mod Parent -1 Off Topic (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm (Score:1)
I'm all for new technology and all, but that just doesn't pass the laugh test IMHO. I mean, for one thing, electronics and bodily fluids just don't mix...
Re:Hmm (Score:1)
if this is the ability to stab someone over th net (Score:4, Funny)
Kicking (Score:4, Funny)
wow... (Score:1)
How is this "cybernetic"? (Score:4, Insightful)
Please tell how this is anymore cybernetic than a telephone!
You could start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cybernetics [wikipedia.org]
we all know where this is going (Score:2, Funny)
I guess the chicken is the part of this that is... (Score:5, Interesting)
There have been 2-way haptic feedback systems since the early 90's (and probably before that but I am not personally aware of them.)
I personally used a 20+ sensor cyberglove on an SGI IR that was networked to another modified cyberglove in order to transmit tactile response both to and from the target (in this case a rubber ball.) That was in 1997.
Re:I guess the chicken is the part of this that is (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but did you use it on a chicken? I think all of you naysayers are missing the truly original, patent worthy use of this technology "...on a chicken".
I'm going to invent reading email "...on a chicken".
Re:I guess the chicken is the part of this that is (Score:2)
Re:That's why it's patentable!!! URGH!!! (Score:2)
Jeez.... (Score:1)
In episode 7, Leia will be able to give you a virtual blow job.
a new idea? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.fu-fme.com/ [fu-fme.com] (humor)
http://www.sinulator.com/ [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.
So what happens when... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:So what happens when... (Score:2)
You have a really good orgasm?
Re:So what happens when... (Score:2)
I forget which University it was... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Beg your pardon... (Score:4, Interesting)
When you start treading VR waters I think you realize how quickly todays technology fails to fit the bill. Novel? Sure. Maybe even fun. But no-one is going to mistake a sweaty vinyl glove and some hot, neck wrenching, low-res goggle for "virtual reality".
Reality contains a lot more physical feed-back then we are currently capable of reproducing. Thats why VR has remained a tech-show novelty and not become the booming industry you'd like to see (and your not alone).
Re:Beg your pardon... (Score:2)
Another crack like that and I'm going to hit you over the head with my Atari 2600. A five contact joystick and 128 bytes of RAM is all that *real* games need
Belive me, you got *plenty* of feedback as the contacts or wires wore out.
hawk, who won't admit to the quantity of the things that he rebuilt back then
God Help Me (Score:3, Funny)
subservos (Score:3, Funny)
Re:subservos (Score:2)
"spin"
"watch tv"
"throw pillows"
"disco"
"reverse disco"
"robot"
"sword fight"
"relax"
"heart attack"
All worked. Only a small minority of my more complex commands, like "hold up 2 fingers left, 3 fingers right", led to incorrect actions with similar spelling or wording. That must of been a lot of pre-recording.
Re:subservos (Score:2)
Re:subservos (Score:2)
FINALLY!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
Rock'em Sock'em Robots Online, anyone? Betcha I can make your head pop first!
Re:FINALLY!!! (Score:2)
Well yes, that's another use for this technology.
Finally, a replacement to abstinence (Score:1)
Rich and famous? (Score:3, Funny)
All non-smellovision research is wasted on me (Score:5, Funny)
Prior Art (Score:2)
whoring (Score:2)
But does your dildo Run Linux? Yes!
In Soviet Russia you fuck the microsoft.
Insert Beowulf cluster of dildos here.... err I mean insert Beowulf cluster of dildos joke here.
Get your Chicken Fucker wavs/mp3s here [moviewavs.com]
Fowl play foreplay is foul play.
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OMG! (Score:2)
Josh
PS. Isn't this old hat? Like Howard Rheingold, Jaron Lanier and the whole "teledildonics" thing from the early 90s?
Recommended Reading!!! (Score:2, Informative)
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 mak
one day we may even play chess online (Score:2)
Gives a whole new meaning to.... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude's name is Cheok, not Choke! (Score:2)
Reporter Lakshmi should really appreciate the additional 'touch' capability!
not first (Score:4, Interesting)
breasts? (Score:3, Funny)
what would you like to interact with?
1) breasts
2) breasts
3) breasts
4) breasts
5) breasts
6) Cmdr Taco breasts
Why did the chicken cross the road? (Score:2)
I'm sorry, but it had to be said
He wasn't kidding... (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA (Score:2)
WHHAAAAAMMMM!!!!!
too long on slashdot (Score:2)
Oblig. Napoleon Dynamite (Score:2)
Re:Handjobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handjobs? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Current haptic displays typically allow a user to interact with a virtual or remote environment through a tool," says Allison M. Okamura, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. "Hence, the systems feel like you are poking at the world through a stick. A major challenge is providing the user with more delicate tactile sensations, such as feeling that occurs when one draws her finger over a rough or smooth surface. This kind of realism is difficult to achieve."
Re:Handjobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handjobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handjobs? (Score:2, Interesting)
[...] Experts dismiss the whole idea as silly. [...]
I wonder what sort of experts these are ... pr0n experts? technology experts? WTF?
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No, I haven't RTFA.
Wait! (Score:4, Funny)
Either way, the term "choking the chicken" takes on a whole, new meaning.
Re:Wait! (Score:2)
Re:Handjobs? (Score:1)
Now, I don't know what kind of gear you get into, but getting my happy parts getting poked with a stick doe
Re:Handjobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Partly becasue it was a debasement of technology, but mostly because they never got invited to those sorts of parties.
Re:Handjobs? (Score:1)
Re:Uhhh... (Score:3, Funny)
Not in California. [slashdot.org]
Re:I hate myself for this... (Score:2)
We call that a chicken farm.