Cybersnuggling: Scientists Work To Send Hugs Over The Internet

Hokay:

Singapore scientists looking for ways to transmit the sense of touch over the Internet have devised a vibration jacket for chickens and are thinking about electronic children's pyjamas for cyberspace hugs.

A wireless jacket for chickens or other pets can be controlled with a computer and gives the animal the feeling of being touched by its owner, researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) told Monday's edition of The Straits Times.

The next step would be to use the same concept to transmit hugs over the Internet, it said.

And the next step, of course, will be for sex. Soon it will be said that a person "gives great Mouse."

Thanks to Michael, or, as Singaporean scientists refer to him, "Vibrating Chicken Number Eight."

posted by Ace at 10:50 AM

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