In the short while I have
between meetings today, have an excert from New Scientist:

Remote chicken stroking

PEOPLE who are both fond of animals and allergic to them can shout "Hallelujah!". Adrian David Cheok and colleagues at the National University of Singapore have developed the Touchy Internet system. It connects users to a real chicken via a chicken-shaped doll, an array of sensors and a webcam link. The idea is that you stroke the doll, and then the real chicken, which wears a lightweight jacket containing tiny vibration motors, feels the touch in the same place.

With commendable modesty, Cheok says he understands "the perceived eccentricity of developing a system for humans to interact with poultry remotely". But he insists the work "has a much wider significance". He says that it could eventually allow people allergic to dogs...
( Geordie Al, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:49, archived)

Things like this
make me think the terrorists have got the right idea after all.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:51, archived)

Luddite!
Turning your back on remote-manipulated poultry.
( Geordie Al, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

robocock
the future of chicken drumsticks.
( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:54, archived)

I give it ten minutes before it dissolves under the hail of spluff

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

..go on...
/waits
(ah sod it tinsels chummily, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

...and cats to interact in a touchy-feely way with their pets, or enable zoo visitors to pat a lion or a bear.

Perceived eccentricity or not, he may well be onto something.
( Geordie Al, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:54, archived)

to
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:57, archived)

You know
it's only going to end up being a high-tech sex toy...
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:57, archived)

That's wonderful
I always wondered when the day would come that I could interact with poultry remotely.

/stealth chickenfucker
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

that's really great.
I know someone who is very frightened of getting contaminated by farm animals; although he really likes them, he can't go near them.

More of this sort of news.
(Brad Dice, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

This was reported in a similar fashion a while ago on the Register I think.
If so it probably came with the inevitable sarcasm about using the net to choke the chicken etc.
( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:52, archived)

why chickens?
who the fuck strokes chickens? now if they made one with a supermodel-shaped doll...
( Fergburger, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:57, archived)

that is sooo last week,
you should be reading this week's- we're all gonna get bird flu when the diseased geese migrate here
fun fun fun
( bookerina, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 13:57, archived)

Does this remind anyone of Brasseye?
The special episode....
(R-T-C Got arbitrage profits?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 14:03, archived)