Imagine a brave new Internet world where people can hug in cyberspace, and maybe even kiss and more!
Singapore scientists looking for ways to transmit the sense of touch over the Internet have already devised a vibration jacket for chickens and are thinking about electronic children’s pajamas 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 in Singapore say. The next step would be to use the same concept to transmit hugs over the Internet, the scientists add.
They are thinking of a pajama suit for children, which would use the Internet to adjust changes in pressure and temperature to simulate the feeling of being hugged. Parents wearing a similar suit could be “hugged” back by their children.
And if all this comes true in the not too distant future, what’s next: kissing over the Internet, holding hands, making love?
I don’t believe this one bit.
I think this story was fabricated by the man in the photo after this picture of him wearing women’s clothing was posted on the Internet.
This idea has been around a while. I remember joking about it in a brainstorming session, and then someone found similar ideas already on the Net.
Forget the pets and hugs for kids (as though kids want to be hugged by a computerized hydraulic suit.)
Porn has already drive many of the developments on the Net in the quest for the perfect sex simulator. The Holy Grail of perversion.
It never occured to me to put it on a chicken, though. What exactly do they get up to in Singapore?
In the future, we will all be suited up in full body hydraulic suits, with 3D goggles over our eyes, and taste-smell simulators over our olfactory organs. We will forget to eat, drink or exercise, or even to wake up. We will set out computer to take care of these needs…..oh, wait - this has been done before.
That picture, it…
hurts my eyes…