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tele-pet your chicken
have you ever felt that longing of not being able to connect with your chicken while on vacation? me too. apparently it's not just us, the mixed reality lab at the national university of singapore has faced similar pains.
on your desk sits a replica of your beloved, mimicing his or her actions when it is turned on. tactile sensors in the doll allow your touch to be communicated via RF and then the internet to a haptic jacket that your remote chicken is wearing.
"This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed," said professor Adrian David Cheok, the leader of the team, who has been developing the technology for nearly two years.but there are some more serious applica... oh i give up: BWAHAHAHAHAHA."We understand the perceived eccentricity of developing a system for humans to interact with poultry remotely, but this work has a much wider significance," he added.
[thanks wired]