How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet 96
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."
Chicken Hugging (Score:5, Funny)
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For the ducks and chickens I raise, I put their necks on a log and then I use an ax. One can also twist the necks while hunting for example and when no log and ax are handy. I feel the ax is better, hanging is a big no no in my book ;-)
P.S. I know one hangs them (by the feet) for the meat to age and the blood to drain.
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Really? Hug a Chicken? Come on it's called Choking your chicken, the Internet is a weird place.
"Kevin bloody Wilson" said to be ecstatic about the possibility of F***ing a chicken over the internet!
Relevant webcomic (Score:2, Interesting)
A Softer World [asofterworld.com]
Suspicious (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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I'm very glad I don't have to write that interface spec...
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You think you have it bad, imagine the geeksquad call.
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"Ready for operation. Click to enlarge" . :-)
Re:Suspicious (Score:5, Funny)
I hear that cock tastes like chicken.
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"I hear that cock tastes like chicken."
Take one of each. Skin (plucking is too much work) and de-head them, then fry in the same pan for comparison.
Post results!
Re:Digital Lollipop (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Note - don't leech a hacker's wifi if you're going to be downloading taste or smell files.
Sensory Spam Re:Digital Lollipop (Score:1)
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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. [wikipedia.org]
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 n
Chicken Hugging (Score:1)
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!
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Chickens, when hugged, go into a defensive posture, crouching low, head down, wings slightly hunched. They generally will not peck adult humans.
In retrospect, she could have mistaken me for a cockerel trying to mount her and gone into a mating position, which is roughly the same posture.
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Raise them from chicks and they make great pets and will not have a problem with hugs. Some will even purr!
There are chicken diapers so your chicken can stay in the house.
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Many birds can be "potty trained" like dogs and cats, but people usually doesn't have the same patience than with mammals when it comes to training avian pets, for some reason.
Time to buy porn industry stock (Score:1)
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I have 2 backyard chickens (Score:5, Informative)
Tremendous implications for telemedicine (Score:5, Interesting)
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Wouldn't fix the latency problem, because it can't be solved without changing orbits.
Distance from Earth to Mars (right now) = 3.052 * 10^8 km
Speed of light in vacuum =299792 km/s
Distance / c = 16minutes, 58.12 seconds
Space is freaking huge.
Re:Tremendous implications for telemedicine (Score:4, Informative)
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Clearly you're forgetting about the data wrapper for the Ansible system...
The Hard Part (Score:2)
Um... Ok... (Score:1)
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Japan is weird, did you know that? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's an important step forward, but only in Japan would hugging a chicken be an intermediate step.
Re:Japan is weird, did you know that? (Score:5, Informative)
Growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Cheok had often played with the chickens kept by his grandfather, so he decided to focus on poultry (rule one). He built haptic jackets for the chickens himself (rule two), embedding them with vibrating elements. Tinkering taught him just how difficult it is to produce a gentle, humanlike touch. “The system develops as you build it,” Cheok says. “I see research as iterative—you’re learning from what you’re making.”
Japanese indirectness... (Score:2)
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's with the cutesy stuff? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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How about punching a chicken? :D
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But chickens are kind of cute, why would you punch a chicken without the chicken doing something evil to you, like kidnapping your children or pecking you in the eye? I'd rather hug them.
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So you don't eat cooked chickens? ;) That's OK, I have a chicken. I wouldn't kill and eat him unless I had no food. >:)
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Actually, I don't eat poultry. I happen to be a bird enthusiast since I was a little kid, used to raise chicks and that kind of thing. For me birds are like cats for everyone else. (I also happen to hate cats, their "I own my owner" attitude kills any semblance of cuteness they might have).
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Ah cool. So you eat cats then? [grin]
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Forget punching, we need to go straight to stabbing.
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I could swear I already saw that on the net but it must have been those missile launchers I remembered about:
http://www.usbgeek.com/collections/gadgets/products/usb-wireless-missile-launcher [usbgeek.com]
http://www.usbgeek.com/collections/gadgets/products/usb-thunder-missile-launcher [usbgeek.com]
H.E.A.V.E.N. (Score:5, Funny)
Haptically Enhanced Advanced Virtual Environment Network
H.E.A.V.E.N.
Nice to see some of this technology starting to progress.
GrpA.
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Haptically Enhanced Advanced Virtual Environment Network
H.E.A.V.E.N.
aka teledildonics -- a name I remember from the 1980's at MIT Media Lab.
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Wake me up with Jackie Treehorn finally gets his Advanced Teledildonics project going.
How to "Hug" a Chicken Via the Internet. (Score:1)
^-- Scare-quotes added for your cyber-chicken-choking pleasure.
On the internet.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Nobody.
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She said she wanted more foreplay.
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They respond favorably to holding, petting, etc. Hugging is too much as they are lightly built.
(I have backyard chickens.)
Failure (Score:1)
How many chicken were squeezed to death before he got the machine working?
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Temple Grandin version (Score:3)
I want to see Temple Grandin's version of these remote hug machines.
You lick my lollypop I'll hug your chicken. (Score:2)
Poor nerds... (Score:2)
This is wrong on so many levels (Score:3)
I've read some disturbing things on Slashdot, but this turns it up to eleven.
Penny Arcade (Score:1)
Plagiarised? (Score:2)
Blow (on) someone over IP (Score:2)
Breath over IP [makezine.com] was done several years ago.