May 18, 2005
The Touchy Internet
Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting
"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. Built by a wacky group of researchers at the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore, the Touchy Internet works as follows: You walk into your office, where a hollow, chicken-shaped doll sits on a mechanical positioning table close to your computer. The doll whirs to life as soon as you switch on the system, duplicating the motion of a real chicken in the backyard whose movements are being captured by a webcam. Fondling the doll translates into touching the real fowl." Continue reading Eggheads Invent Tele-Petting by Lakshmi Sandhana, Wired, May 17, 2005.
Posted by jo at May 18, 2005 08:05 AM
